Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:08:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Antoine Beaupre <beaupran@IRO.UMontreal.CA> To: chad@rez.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk partitions Message-ID: <14331.26089.359827.108306@bld11.IRO.UMontreal.CA> References: <199910052325.QAA01404@chad.anasazi.com>
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--- Big Brother told Chad R. Larson to write, at 16:25 of October 5: > Is there some rule that says there can only be one FreeBSD partition > on a disk drive? I don't think so. I run FBSD-3.3RC on my drive (and ran it this way since 3.1R) with 3 main partition (that we call slices in FBSD, if I'm not mistaken): 1: FAT32 (win 98) 2: FBSD (/ /var /usr ...) 3: FBSD (/home) My kernel is on 2: and I boot by there. Without any problems. I use the OS-BS boot selector though. > Here's the story. This machine on which I type is a 166 MHz > Pentium, with 32 MB of RAM and an Adaptec on-the-motherboard SCSI > controller. Its single hard drive is a 4GB Segate. The boot dmesg > output is attached if you want further details. It's running > FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE, CVSup'd and built in July. > > It has been set up to dual-boot NT workstation and FreeBSD. But the > dual booting proved to be too much hassle, so I obtained a second > machine, loaded Win95 on it and left this one in BSD. Lately, I've > been getting short on disk space in the BSD world (doesn't > everyone?) and decided to poach some of the NT space. Ok.. So the machine isn't dual-booting anymore, right? Then why not make a backup and dedicate the drive to BSD? > The disk had been set with FDISK partitions like this: > > 1 500MB type 6 dos (FAT, NT C: drive) > 2 1.5GB type 5 dos (NTFS, NT D: drive) > 3 2.0GB type 165 FreeBSD > 4 unused > > I ran "fdisk -2 -u sd0", and changed the partition type from 5 to > 165. When I attempted to reboot, BootEazy offered me > > F1 dos > F2 BSD > F3 BSD > > but F3 refuses to boot. When I hit F3, or allow the timeout to take > that as a default, the cursor moves down one line and to the left > margin and then the machine hangs. I can CTL-ALT-DEL back around to > the BootEazy prompt. F2 also does not boot (I didn't expect it to, > but wondered if the partitions got reordered somehow in BootEazy's > mind). F1 =does= boot NT. This is strange. Have you tried to revert things as they were before? > If I boot the 2.2.8-RELEASE live filesystem CD, and drop into fixit > mode, I can set the type on partition 2 to 0, and I can boot again. > Partition 2 disappears from the BootEazy menu. As I said earlier, maybe you should try OS-BS. It's available in the 'tools' directory (if I remember correctly) of the ftp archive. With it, you can select which OS (slice, in fact) to show on boot, and which not. > If we get past this, then I'll be asking why disklabel doesn't seem > willing to work against sd0s2c. It would help to see the output of fdisk and disklabel for the apropriate disks. 'hope that helps... ants. [snipped dmesg output] -- Si l'image donne l'illusion de savoir C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire, L'important ne serait que de voir Lofofora To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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