Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:24:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: cmayes@frognet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems viewing logical drives in an extended partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905061122090.25986-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905060435.AAA26248@adenine.frognet.net>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Chris wrote: > 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. DOS Extended partitions are mapped to extra slice numbers beyond 4. For the first logical disk, it's da0s5, da0s6, etc. > I want to install FreeBSD on hda5 (I tried Stampede Linux, but was > nonplussed). FreeBSD requires it's own slice. You may not install it on any other slice type. > 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? It should work, since FreeBSD uses the standard PC booting conventions. It worked with the OS/2/PartitionMagic boot manager and it didn't recognize the filesystem type. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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