Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:52:47 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs?= Abidan <jabidan@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot boot freebsd Message-ID: <20091111195247.GA6824@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <b18b0d440911111122x262fb4c3vd566ec11e8a5db5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <b18b0d440911110902n5efc8a94na8bfb7771d9b3c31@mail.gmail.com> <20091111170900.GA5972@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <b18b0d440911111027if930d18p65c3f3fce7badee2@mail.gmail.com> <20091111184945.GA6493@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <b18b0d440911111122x262fb4c3vd566ec11e8a5db5b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:22:58PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: > ok. the slices in freebsd are little tricky, i will check my installation > and send some feedback later. ?? FreeBSD slices are pretty straight forward. They are just the name of the 4 primary divisions of a disk - limited to 4 by BIOS. MS just calls them primary partitions instead of slices. The major difference is how they might be subdivided. MS does what it calls logical partitions. FreeBSD subdivisions are just called partitions. The fdisk(8) utility creates slices (or primary partitions in MS, though the FreeBSD fdisk is not very conversant with some of the new MS types so you may be better off using something else to create primary partitions/slices if other OSen are being accomodated). Slices (or primary partitions) are identified by numbers 1..4. The bsdlabel(8) utility in FreeBSD is what subdivides a slice in to partitions. It used to be that it was limited to 7 real partitions identified with letters a..h with the letter 'c' reserved to describe the whole slice and not usable as a real partition. Partition 'a' is normally root mounted as '/' and partition 'b' is used as swap. These two (a & b) are conventions and not enforced, except that some software may make these assumptions. My understanding is that the newest versions of FreeBSD (8.0) modify or remove the limit and you can have letters above 'h' and thus more subdivisions in a slice, but I haven't tried that yet. In FreeBSD, to create a filesystem from a partition, you run newfs(8) on it. ////jerry > > Thanks a lot. > > 2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:27:13PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: > > > > > i pressed f2 for freebsd and nothing happens... i pressed f1 for windows. > > > > > > I install freebsd on the first partition and now it occurs the viceversa, > > i > > > cannot boot windows, does it have to be something with the order of the > > > partitions? i mean primary, logical o something like this? > > > > MS-Win should optimally be installed on the first primary partition. > > This is called 'slice 1' by FreeBSD. Then FreeBSD should be installed > > on slice 2. > > > > If the slices are not to your liking, then you may need to use some > > utility such as Parition Magic 7 (I had trouble with PM-8) or gparted > > to define the primary partitions/slices before you do any of the installs. > > But, still, MS-Win should be installed first and go in the first slice > > and FreeBSD later in another slice. That is because MS-Win doesn't play > > very well if installed later and/or in a different slice. > > > > When you install FreeBSD (after the MS-Win install) select installing > > the FreeBSD MBR (not none or default minimum). It should be smart > > enough to find both. > > > > I have heard some complaints about MS-Vista and having to do some > > other monkeying around to get an MBR to handle it correctly, but I > > don't know details and I do not (lucky me) have any Vista machines > > to joust with. > > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > > > 2009/11/11 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi there, i have a problem here, i installed windows in mi box and i > > left > > > > a > > > > > partition for freebsd, i finished install of freebsd and installed > > the > > > > boot > > > > > mgr of freebsd but when i reboot only windows boots with f1 pressed? > > how > > > > can > > > > > I make the system boots both? > > > > > > > > Not sure all of what you see, but if you literally mean that when > > > > you press F1 it always boots MS-Win, that is probably correct. > > > > You will have to press F2 or maybe F3 (depending in which slice you > > > > installed FreeBSD) to boot FreeBSD. > > > > > > > > I suspect you mean something a little different, but if so, > > > > please elaborate. > > > > > > > > ////jerry > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > >
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