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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:28:43 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kue@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at (Werner Kuehnert)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installation Problems with FreeBSD 2.1
Message-ID:  <199604030258.MAA17804@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <9604020720.AA26762@zerberus> from "Werner Kuehnert" at Apr 2, 96 09:20:26 am

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Werner Kuehnert stands accused of saying:

> Last weekend I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my computer and had
> only little success. I have the distribution on CD and everything
> works fine (booting, partitioning, labeling, choice of packages and
> so on) up to the point of first reboot, which didn't work because
> there was no bootable partition left :-(

Odd.  If you were installing to a disk other than the first, I'd have
expected this, but that's just Weird.

> The partitions are as follows :
> Drive ID0 :
>     #1:    Primary DOS 127MB
>     #2:    Extended DOS 64MB 1 log. drive
>     #3:    Non-DOS (0xA5) 665MB
> Drive ID1 :
>     #1:    Non-DOS (0xA5) 630MB
> Drive ID5 :
>     #1:    Extended-DOS 349MB 2 log. drives
>     #2:    Non-DOS (0xA5) 350MB

> I tried to install the system onto partition #3 / drive ID0. When I
> boor from a DOS-disk the second (extended partition) is gone. I
> tried to install the boot selector program supplied with freebsd.

Is the partition "gone", or just "not visible"?  ie. does fdisk still
see it?  Is there an empty space there?

> 		Werner

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