Re: disklabel: partition X: partition extends past end of unit

From: Tim Judd (tjudd01_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:48:05 -0600

Syn NOSPAM wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running OpenBSD 3.5 on sparc64 architecture and got the following
> error messages when displaying my disk partition:
>
> disklabel: partition c: partition extends past end of unit
> disklabel: partition e: partition extends past end of unit
> disklabel: partition f: offset past end of unit
> disklabel: partition f: partition extends past end of unit
>
> What's the problem here ? I didn't get any such of these error messages
> when partitioning at the installation of OpenBSD and now I get those
> error messages... Very strange...
>
> Thanks for the help
> Regards
>

Probably something to do with the disk geometry being foobar'd on boot.
  During partitioning, it's <IMPOSSIBLE> to partition beyond the
boundries, but post install, it queries the drive (at least this is on
the i386 architecture) and the drive is supposed to send the proper data
back, but with BIOS' from 486 machines up, the BIOS can translate and
give weird responses to the OS.

Check for some sort of drive geometry information in the docs.

Good Luck

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