From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 3 1:11:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C743E37B422 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:10:11 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA46045; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 01:11:11 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: David Uhring Cc: thomas@noproblem.net, chad@DCFinc.com, JDBitters@cs.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM Message-ID: <20000903011111.F62475@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <000c01c01546$f334ed40$0101a8c0@noproblem.net> <00090221070200.18474@dave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00090221070200.18474@dave>; from duhring@charter.net on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:49:55PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:49:55PM -0500, David Uhring wrote: [snip] > See the Handbook, Section 2.4.2, where Microsoft "partitions" are discussed. > Even though the BIOS - read Microsoft - partitions are limited to 4 primary > partitions, BSD's and Solaris's "slice" tables do not reside in the MBR, but > rather in the first sector of the partition on which BSD or Solaris resides. > Partitions are configured with fdisk and slices are configured with disklabel. No, that's backwards. From the section of the handbook you refer, FIPS allows you to split an existing MS-DOS partition into two pieces, preserving the original partition and allowing you to install onto the second free piece... Afterwards, you can reboot and install FreeBSD on the new free slice. ^^^^^ Also, from dfisk(8) BUGS . . Throughout this man page, the term `partition' is used where it should actually be `slice', in order to conform with the terms used elsewhere. > You should see what Linux 2.4.0-test7 reports as the geometry of my primary HD. > Until I got rid of Solaris and used its space for FreeBSD and OpenBSD, I had > 32 /dev/hda*. Yes, it is confusing that FreeBSD uses 's' to designate > partitions. Get used to it. Easy to remeber 's' for 'slice.' I just find the 1-4 rather than 0-3 numbering incongruent. ;) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message