Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 06:38:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks Message-ID: <199503292038.GAA12906@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>500MB for DOS
> within this paritition are two extended/logical DOS partitions,
> which are my DOS D/E drives.
>500MB for FreeBSD
>Before all of the slicing code I was able to create entries in my disk
>label with the correct start/end locations so I could mount the D/E
>DOS drives under FreeBSD.
>After running the new MAKEDEV and attempting to mount every /dev/{sd1*,sd1s*}
>device, I was unable to mount either paritition. An fdisk on /dev/sd1s1
>shows an entry that would be the D/E logical DOS partitions. fdisk sd1s2
>shows my FreeBSD paritition, which is what I would expect.
>So my question is, with the new slice code, how do I mount these
>two parititions again.
Read the boot messages to see what the slice numbers of the extended/
logical partitions might be. Run MAKEDEV to create these slices if
necessary. `sh MAKEDEV all' only creates some devices for slices s1-s4.
Extended/logical partitions are on slices s5-s30.
Bruce
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