From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 21:35:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adenine.frognet.net (adenine.frognet.net [204.192.96.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564C914E3A for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 21:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cmayes@cmayes.frognet.net) Received: from cmayes.frognet.net (dyn072-tnt01.athens.frognet.net [216.3.1.201]) by adenine.frognet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA26248 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 00:35:52 -0400 Message-Id: <199905060435.AAA26248@adenine.frognet.net> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 00:36:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Reply-To: cmayes@frognet.net Subject: Problems viewing logical drives in an extended partition To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, everyone. This is my first post to the list (and my first crack at running FreeBSD). I am primarily a Linux user but am looking to expand my experiences with as many OSes as possible. Learning is fun ;-) In any case, my problem is that when I bring up FreeBSD fdisk, it does not see the logical drives within my extended partition. I suppose my first question would be whether FreeBSD can boot from a logical partition or not. From the documentation, it sounds like it can. That's a good thing. Now, is there a way to make the fdisk see the logical partitions within my extended partition without reformatting the other partitions? Here's my fstab (if you're interested): # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /stampede ext2 defaults 0 2 I want to install FreeBSD on hda5 (I tried Stampede Linux, but was nonplussed). While I'm here, I thought I'd find out about boot procedures. Does the boot manager for FreeBSD operate in a similar fashion to LILO? Can I have FreeBSD write to the partition's primary sector(?) rather than the MBR to allow another boot manager to call it? The reason I ask is that I am currently using Bootman from BeOS and am quite happy with it. Unfortunately, I doubt that Bootman would officially support booting to FreeBSD. Anyway, if I tell bootman to treat the FreeBSD partition as a Linux partition, will it behave properly? I sincerely hope to get around the extended partition problem. I've heard many good things about FreeBSD and am looking forward to trying it out. Thanks, -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message