Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:08:34 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: More thoughts on the installer Message-ID: <m0sIfdj-0006SmC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <199506050418.VAA19935@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 4, 95 09:18:54 pm
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > X means "couldn't assign a name" which means that you're all out of > partitions. You can have seven per slice: [abd-h] I could not find the number 7 documented but that could just be me. :) I encountered /dev/X when trying to get FreeBSD installed on a disk that has 2099 cylinders. I am using OS/2 Boot Manager with a DOS and an OS/2 partition. This leaves about 50 mb below the 1024 cylinder limit ... as OS/2 BM requires a partition to be completely within the 1024 cylinder limit to add said partition to the boot menu. So, I made a small BSD partition then another one for the rest of the disk. BSD recognized the small partition but /dev/X'd the other one... that is with a 1mb primary partition for Boot Manager, a 320mb primary DOS partition, a 128mb extended OS/2 partition ... then BSD. This is a different limitation than the one you describe? *Can* I have more than one slice per disk now? -- Jan Isley jan@bagend.atl.ga.us
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