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

From: Syn NOSPAM (syn_NOSPAM_uw_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 06:39:41 +0200

Tim Judd wrote:

> 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.

Well I am on a Sun Netra X1 using sparc64 architecture so no i386 and
bios stuff. So what do you suggest me to do ? Check the docs from the
harddisk manufacter and enter manually all HD data like cylinders,
heads, and so on ?

Regards

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