From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 15:32:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA10385 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:32:41 -0800 Received: from mpp.com (dialup-2-141.gw.umn.edu [134.84.101.141]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA10370 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:32:26 -0800 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA00206 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 16:29:30 -0600 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199503212229.QAA00206@mpp.com> Subject: Mounting dos partitions To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 16:29:30 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1424 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having some trouble trying to figure out how to get some of my dos partitions mounted, and before I waste a lot of time trying to figure out what is going on, I figured I'd ask first. I currently have two SCSI hard disks, partitioned as so: disk 0: the entire disk is my dos C drive (I can mount this drive without any problems using mount -t msdos /dev/sd0e /mnt) disk1: the first 500MBs are an extended DOS partition, with two logical dos partitions inside it which are my DOS D & E drives. The last 500Mbs of the drive contain all of my FreeBSD filesystems. What I haven't been able to do is figure out how to mount the DOS D & E partitions under FreeBSD. If I run 'fdisk' under FreeBSD on /dev/sd1d, it correctly reports that there are two partitions, each being 500Mbs. Running fdisk on /dev/sd1e correctly identifies my two logical DOS partitions and their layout. Examining the mount code in sys/msdosfs/* seems to indicate that it is expecting a boot block on the disk and isn't finding it. I have tried doing a "sys d:" from DOS to transfer the system (and hopefully a good boot block), but that didn't seem to help. Is there something obvious I'm overlooking, or does the msdos mount code need to be modified to understand the extended/logical DOS partition stuff? -- Mike Pritchard pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"