Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:52 +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote: > > That's interesting then. This disk was labeled by the install procedure > > from 4.5-R ! So I assume that the same fdisk is responsible for this. > > Has it really been the 4.5-R setup software which labelled the > disk or has there been some previous software on the disk?
Well, the system being a HP Omnibook 6100 was probably preinstalled with some form of MS Windows. I didn't use this, I immediately booted from a FreeBSD 4.5-R installation cd. > The point I try to make is: Did you merely "format" the drive or was > it really blank (some kind of "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0c") before > you installed FreeBSD? Inserting boot code into an existing (BIOS) > partition table is completely different from creating a new (BIOS) > partition on a blank disk and thus entering the above values. Ok, then I assume there was already a partition for MS Windows using up the whole disk. (During the 4.5-R installation process I created a suspend-partition, 2 equal sized bootable freebsd partitions and a 4th empty partition for future use ... and this is the one I want to assign to FreeBSD now.) I have still 2 workaround questions: Can I just write a cyl-overlapping table with the right start/end sector stuff ? Should I set all start/end cylinders above 1023 to 1023 to be safe ? Hans Lambermont -- http://lambermont.webhop.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
