Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 19:19:05 -0500 (EST) From: bright@hotjobs.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/7337: Serious "gotcha" for newbies with creating partitions Message-ID: <199807210019.TAA01818@bright.ny.otec.com>
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>Number: 7337 >Category: bin >Synopsis: Creating a partition "before" the boot partition leaves you unable to boot >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 20 16:20:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Alfred Perlstein >Organization: HotJobs Inc. >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 >Environment: FreeBSD-current as of july 19th >Description: if you have multiple partitions like so: 1-DOS 2-DOS 3-FreeBSD (root partition here) then add another freebsd partition like so: 1-DOS 2-FreeBSD (just more space) 3-FreeBSD (root/boot) then you change partition 2 to a FreeBSD partition you can't boot from partition 3 anymore, this is on a partition > 1024 i think. >How-To-Repeat: you can use sysinstall to do it, or manually create/change the partition >Fix: don't know, but you can boot again if you use a install floppie to remove the extra partition. after you make it ANY kinda of non-freebsd partition, you can boot from it. (ext2fs/dos/nothing) >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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