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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: URGENT HELP! Can no longer mount disk! Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 5 Nov 1996 13:26:41 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <55nfah$133@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <01bbca71$ffa0e3f0$27366d81@masscomp> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Cc: ehymel@utmb.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1430 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30661 "Ernest Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> wrote: > What could cause disklabel -r to correctly see the disk geometry, but when > I try to boot to the same disk, or mount that disk from another FreeBSD > disk, I get all kinds of messages like: disklabel -r (``raw'') reads directly from the disk, bypassing the kernel. > sd1: raw partition size != slice size > sd1: start 0, end 49999, size 50000 > sd1c: start 0, end 430835, size 4308352 > sd1: truncating raw partition Your fdisk table doesn't reflect reality (and somehow, it hasn't been properly detected as a `legacy fdisk table'). Run fdisk, remove all slice entries, and create a single one for BSD, starting at block 0 with a size of 4308352 blocks. (The C/H/S values are meaningless; leave them alone the way fdisk prefers to compute them.) > Please email if you post. [Cc sent, F'up redirected to the correct group.] -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j