Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:44:21 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Daniel Drahusz <husz@chelmsford.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partitions Message-ID: <19970829104421.55396@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970826215127.006739f4@chelmsford.com>; from Daniel Drahusz on Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 05:51:27PM -0400 References: <1.5.4.32.19970826215127.006739f4@chelmsford.com>
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Daniel Drahusz: |I recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a Pentium 133 w/ 3.8G hard disk. |I have approx. 1G as Win95, 500M as FreeBSD (w/ Boot Manager) and the rest |is supposed to be free. Unfortunately, when in win95 or msdos, FDISK does |not even recognize FreeBSD as a non-DOS partition. It basically states that |I have only one partition, win95. What is wrong? I am basically attempting |to have |the drive split up as Win95, FreeBSD, and the rest would be logical DOS |partitions. Any advice? Hmmm. I have and have had this same setup on one my drives for some time, currently with 2.2.1, with smaller disks and now with a 4.3Gig hard disk, DOS fdisk always reports the FreeBSD slice as a non-DOS partition. Just to double check, you might verify that in FDISK your looking at the FDISK info for the correct disk. Formatting aside, your fdisk listing should look pretty much like what you see in sysinstall or with FreeBSD's fdisk as far as the four slice assignments. Hmmm. I wonder. Do an fdisk in FreeBSD and see what slices your DOS and FreeBSD partitions are. In particular, I'm curious as to whether there might be an "empty" slot or two in between the two partitions (empty spot in MBR slice table) -- e.g. slice 1 = DOS; slice 3 or 4 == FreeBSD. It's a long shot, but I wonder if this were the case whether DOS might get confused when it encounters a blank entry in the MBR slice table and incorrectly assume that the remaining slots were unassigned as well. Randall
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