From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 05:48:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17190 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 05:48:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA17183 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:48:35 GMT (envelope-from rhh@ct.picker.com) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 8:46:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07962; Mon, 13 Apr 98 08:46:28 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA15517; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:45:58 -0400 Message-Id: <19980413084557.12373@ct.picker.com> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:45:57 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Doug White , Marty Leisner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting freebsd (multiple slices on a disk) Mail-Followup-To: Doug White , Marty Leisner , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <9804091649.AA17011@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:08:46PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White: |On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Marty Leisner wrote: |> My disk layout (from linux fdisk) is: |> : leisner@compudyne;bsdfdisk -l |> |> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 826 cylinders |> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes |> |> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System |> /dev/hda1 1 1 127 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M |> /dev/hda2 * 128 128 534 820512 5 Extended |> /dev/hda3 825 825 825 2016 a OS/2 Boot Manager |> /dev/hda4 535 535 686 306432 b5 Unknown |> /dev/hda5 * 128 128 254 256000+ 7 OS2 20.0 |> /dev/hda6 * 255 255 381 256000+ 7 OS2 20.0 |> /dev/hda7 * 382 382 407 52384+ 83 Linux native |> /dev/hda8 408 408 509 205600+ 83 Linux native |> /dev/hda9 510 510 534 50368+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M NO NAME | |Huh?? What is this displaying? No disk can have more than 4 slices and I |count 8. What does a DOS fdisk look like? AFAIK, Linux numbers its partitions 1-4 for DOS partitions (aka FreeBSD slices), and the rest are the extended partitions within the extended DOS partition (slice). If you look at the start/end numbers, you can see that hda5-9 all lie within the bounds of hda2, which is the DOS extended. "slice". Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message