From the newsgroup alt.solaris.x86

> Juergen Marenda wrote:
> [...]
> Solution:
> 
> After reading format, fmthard and fdisk man pages,
> i wrote a file s-geom:
> 
> 16380 16378 2 0 32 63 512
> 
> Then i did
> fdisk -S s-geom -I /dev/rdsk/c1d0p0
> and created a Solaris-Fdisk-Partition.
> Then i did
> format on it,
> partitioned it, 
> made filesystems, etc.
> and it worked in the way i know.
> 
> (also after shutdown, power off, power on, boot :-)
> 
> The trick is to let fdisk ignore the geometry reported by ? BIOS ?
> (option -i)
> and overwrite it with a fake geometry fitting the hard disk.
> 
> What are the numbers in s-geom from?
> 16380 # cylinders
> 32    # heads
> 63    # sectors/cyl
> from the bios setup for the IDE Disk
> 
> 2 alternate cylinders
> 16378 = cylinders - alternate cylinders
> 512 Bytes per sector
> 0 offset from beginning of the hard disk
> 
> Hope this helps others,

Juergen Marenda.
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