Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:39:03 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <rhawkins@iastate.edu> To: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A multi-OS Installation of FreeBSD 2.2.8 Message-ID: <m10G6ch-000P4nC@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:14:41 EST." <Pine.SOL.L3.93.990225140656.535A-100000@bingsun2>
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zhihuizhang wrote, > > I got three primary partitions in my machine and the FreeBSD is the last. > I tried to setup the primary master disk in BIOS as follows: > > type size clyls head precomp landz sector mode > user 6449 784 255 0 13327 63 LBA I've found, after much difficulty, that FreeBSD doesn't like the way linux fdisk allocates logical partitions within the extended partition. They are done in a way that makes bsd think there's an invalid disklabel. Sometimes it complains, and sometimes the kernel give a paging error and panics/reboots (but with a countdown). I've found no way around this save rebooting until success. And I'm seeing no evidence so far that linux and freebsd can coexist on the sam e machine :( 3.1 may haave solved the problems with 3.0 trashing ext2 filesystems, but i can't take the risk. Linux kernel 2.2 can r/w mount ufs filesystems, but it seems to do something not quite right. I ran with a ufs partition on /home for about three days, I got plenty of errors from netscape (while supposedly idling) that it had an error mounting the bookmark file. THen, suddenly, any attempt to write to /home crated an error message that it was a read-only file system--contrary to what mount reported. And any attempt to umount irretrevably hung, impervious even to -9 . . . and there's no ability to fsck a ufs partition from linux. ANd with my bsd partition before my linux partition, partition numbers change mid-way through boot. And heaven forbid that this cause linux to attempt to mount a ufs partition as ext2, as this kills it beyond recovery. So booting is a problem with both installed, and even once you're up, you can't share files unless you run them through a dos or minix partition . . . rick, who's given up -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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