So linux fdisk says the following things about the disk: /dev/sda1 Bootable Start 1 End 19382 Blocks 156290872+ Id a5 System FreeBSD
(I selected UFS rather than HAMMER when I installed DragonFly on it). So everything looks fine, except I can't have it powered on at Computer boot-time. Perhaps I can install GRUB on a floppy, pointing it at /dev/sda1, and plug the disk in whilst GRUB is being loaded. (This begs of desperation - especially as I don't know what a GRUB definition for DragonFly should look like). 2009/4/15 Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[email protected]>: > I bet this is the "set all bits to one on CHS overflow" thing in fdisk. I'd > really like to know how we are supposed to handle this (better). > > Colin, sorry for trashing your computer. I think we are well aware of this > issue, but we simply don't know exactly how to deal with it. Could you > maybe use window's fdisk to create a large partition on the drive and then > report back how the partition table looks like? In this case we could > adjust our fdisk so that this won't happen again. > > thanks > simon > > Colin Adams wrote: >> >> What appears to have happened is that in some way it has trashed my >> disk-drive - I can still get the machine to boot from the live CD, but >> only if I physically disconnect the hard-disk first. >> >> >> 2009/4/8 Hasso Tepper <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Colin Adams wrote: >>>> >>>> Well, if that is the case the ISO should not be available for download >>>> - there should be a fixed version. >>> >>> Well. It shouldn't be any way fatal, but in general I agree - we should >>> release 2.2.1 ASAP, really. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Hasso Tepper >>> > >
