Date: Sun, 06 Jul 97 11:57:06 +0200 From: "Mats Dufberg" <Mats.Dufberg@abc.se> To: "Nadav Eiron" <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unable to make device node Message-ID: <199707061001.MAA04604@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se>
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On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 10:36:41 +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote: >Mats Dufberg wrote: >> >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD (2.2.1, Walnut Creek april '97), >> but the installation fails when the file system is to be >> created, "Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev" >> (yes, it says a literal "X"). (...) >> * Is it normal that secondary partitions are reported as >> one single partition? > >Yes. The partition table on the disks only knows of "primary" >partitions. Extended partitions are, in a sense, partitions within >partitions, and the partition table does not reflect that. > >I suspect your problem is that you're atempting to create more than 4 >partitions on a single disk. There's a limit of 4 paritions, and you >already have that many, so I suspect you can't have any more. I gues it >would have been better if sysinstall told you that, and not just made up >a partition called "X", but I think this is basically what your problem >is. The only cure is probably to move some of the primary partitions >into the extended partition, so they will all be counted as one against >the 4 partitions limit. I know NT can boot from a logical partition, >don't know about OS/2 :-( Thank you for your analysis. * Does that mean that FreeBSD only can boot from a primary partition? (Yes, OS/2 can also boot from a secondary partition.) Mats Dufberg ------------------------------------------------------ Mats Dufberg mats.dufberg@abc.se
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