Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:03:04 -0800 (PST) From: <nick@urbancreations.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing FreeBSD breaks partition table? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102190149040.21544-100000@server.urbancreations.com>
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Hi I'm a Debian Linux user and I wanted to check out FreeBSD so I installed it on some extra space on my home PC. Installation seemed to go fine, but I did not tell the installer to install a boot loader because I use lilo. When I rebooted, linux started (as expected) but when I ran fdisk (to find which partition FreeBSD was using--to configure lilo to boot it) it gave me the following error: Warning: too many partitions (16, maximum is 8). I quit fdisk and ran cfdisk. It gave me this error: FATAL ERROR: Bad primay partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk I went back to fdisk and told it to print partitions. It said there were 16 partitions but displayed only 3 things 4.2BSD, swap, and unused. Apparently the partitions are not actually corrupted, though, because linux boots fine. I'm running Debian testing/unstable with kernel 2.4.1 and I was installing FreeBSD 4.2 (from ISO image burned to CD). If anybody knows how to fix this problem so that I can: A. Use fdisk again B. Boot FreeBSD through lilo Thanks a bunch, Nick Urban P.S. I am not suscribed to this list, so any response should be CC'd to me. directly. I was actually going to suscribe to the digest version of it, but I did not see directions for how to do so on freebsd.org. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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