From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 03:08:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEDC16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 03:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from av1.stonline.sk (av1.stonline.sk [213.81.152.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C8C43FF5 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 03:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ico@beke.info) Received: from smtp.stonline.sk ([192.168.4.53]) by av1.stonline.sk (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAMB8TZi012646 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 12:08:29 +0100 Received: from beke.info (stlan-195-153-173.telecom.sk [195.146.153.173]) by smtp1.stonline.sk (STOnline ESMTP Server) with SMTP id <0HOR00H5K2Y46H@smtp1.stonline.sk> for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 12:08:29 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 4982 invoked by uid 1000); Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:08:28 +0000 X-URL: http://ico.esite.sk/ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 12:08:28 +0100 From: ico To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20031122110828.GA65642@beke.info> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Location-WGS84: E 17.07.43 , N 48.07.10 X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030212) (av1.stonline.sk) Subject: LONG -> "partition data on device hda is unreadable" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:08:41 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:08:41 -0000 $SUBJECT is what Fedora Linux thought about my hd after install of FreeBSD 5.1. (freebsd)fdisk shows: Windows on ad0s1 ,NTFS, 4G Linux on ad0s2 ext2(actually ext3), 6G FreeBSD on ad0s3, 6G extended, ads04, rest of windows 3G First i installed windows, than linux(Fedora). ads03 prepared for FreeBSD, created by Partition Magic, as vfat partition. Everything worked smoothly until i installed FreeBSD 5.1 into ad0s3. I've chosen not to touch MBR, do not install boot loader. After reboot i've got the same menu i saw when install of FreeBSD 5.1 started: 7 options , daemon on the right. My grub menu from Linux install is gone. Not a chance to boot something else. So i tried to install grub port and write his config into mbr. But grub can't find (hd0). Setup of grub failed. Partition table was rewriten by FreeBSD? So i tried to boot into Linux, reinstall it or repair it. But you see $subject. It could not install, because "no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystem". Of course linux says it can be repaired, but warning about "all data will be lost", make me nervous ;-). So i tried to reinstal 5.1 and this time in option about bootloader i chose FreeBSD bootloader. After install I have menu: F1 dos F2 linux F3 freebsd Looks good, but i can't boot linux. Reaction to F2 is only long beep. At least my wife's windows are back ;-). Could you suggest please: - how could i cram these 3 OS's on one 20G disk and boot all of them? - should i install freebsd under 8G and than add linux? Maybe someone with enough time and patience could explain to me, why i have so often problems with CHS after installing FreeBSD? ;-) In previous installs Partition Magic 7 used to warn me about something incorrect in my partition table always, when there was FreeBSD(sorry, i don't have exact text of message). Thank you very much for your time, if you are reading this line ;-)). -- *ico beke* freebsd(at)beke.info