From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 6 03:37:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA17964 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 03:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA17959 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 03:37:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA11465; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:36:08 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma011463; Sun Jul 6 13:35:44 1997 Message-ID: <33BF74E4.3D70@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 13:35:16 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mats Dufberg CC: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Unable to make device node References: <199707061001.MAA04604@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mats Dufberg wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Jul 1997 10:36:41 +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > >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. FreeBSD requires its own primary partition. > > (Yes, OS/2 can also boot from a secondary partition.) > > Mats Dufberg > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mats Dufberg mats.dufberg@abc.se Nadav