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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 1995 06:38:03 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks
Message-ID:  <199503292038.GAA12906@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>500MB for DOS
>	within this paritition are two extended/logical DOS partitions, 
>	which are my DOS D/E drives.
>500MB for FreeBSD

>Before all of the slicing code I was able to create entries in my disk
>label with the correct start/end locations so I could mount the D/E
>DOS drives under FreeBSD.

>After running the new MAKEDEV and attempting to mount every /dev/{sd1*,sd1s*}
>device, I was unable to mount either paritition.  An fdisk on /dev/sd1s1
>shows an entry that would be the D/E logical DOS partitions.  fdisk sd1s2
>shows my FreeBSD paritition, which is what I would expect.

>So my question is, with the new slice code, how do I mount these
>two parititions again.  

Read the boot messages to see what the slice numbers of the extended/
logical partitions might be.  Run MAKEDEV to create these slices if
necessary.  `sh MAKEDEV all' only creates some devices for slices s1-s4.
Extended/logical partitions are on slices s5-s30.

Bruce



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