Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:45:24 +0200 (SAST) From: Graham Wheeler <gramster@mweb.co.za> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using FreeBSD with Ontrack Message-ID: <200011201846.UAA24719@wheelerz.mweb.co.za>
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Hi all There is a similar question in the archives but it isn't answered satisfactorily, so its worth asking again. I have a 16Gb HDD, which I want to use with an old Pentium motherboard (pre-MMX). The BIOS doesn't let me specify disks greater than about 8Gb. Ontrack is installed, and the drive was originally used just for MS-Win 98. I used fips to shrink the Windows partition to about 6Gb, and created a .5 Gb partition for FreeBSD root, /var and swap. I then created two partitions each about 5Gb, one for a FAT-32 partition and one for /usr. These were created using FreeBSD's fdisk. I then installed a minimal distribution of FreeBSD 4.0. All seemed well, but when I try to boot the FreeBSD partition, I see a message "not ufs", and then another "no /kernel". Then I get a boot prompt: FreeBSD boot: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel The root partition should be 0:ad(1,a), but entering that doesn't work, I get the "not ufs" message again. I'm not sure what to do. I could possibly get it to work by removing Ontrack and making both FAT-32 partitions lie within the first 8Gb, but I would like to use more than half the drive for MS-Windows, as this will be used for multimedia. So I would like things to work with Ontrack. BTW if I boot a fixit CD, I have no problem mounting /dev/ad0s2 as root, /dev/ad0s2e as /var, and /dev/ad0s3f as /usr, as they appear in the fstab. So it seems to be very much a boot problem only. Any ideas anyone? Thanks gram To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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