Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 13:35:16 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Mats Dufberg <Mats.Dufberg@abc.se> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unable to make device node Message-ID: <33BF74E4.3D70@barcode.co.il> References: <199707061001.MAA04604@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se>
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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
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