Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:03:38 +0200 From: "m.alberti@inwind.it" <m.alberti@inwind.it> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Problem with partitioning Message-ID: <IEKPE2$75007ABD7F5BFA92F1D9DEBB63292B47@libero.it>
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Dear all, I have been trying to install FreeBSD 5.3, and having problems with partitions. My HD configuration was as follows: - one IBM 30 GB HD (seen as ad0 by FreeBSD booted from CD, and as /dev/hde by Linux) with a FAT32 partition (WinME), a Ext3 partition (Mandrake Linux 8.1) and a Linux Swap partition - one Maxtor 200 GB HD (seen as ad1 by FreeBSD and as /dev/hdg by Linux) with a FAT32 partition (no OS on it), a Ext3 partition (Slackware Linux 10.1) and 100 GB free space. The OSes are booted by Lilo installed on the MBR of the first disk. I made a 30GB partition for FreeBSD and installed the system on it, leaving the MBRs untouched. It did give me a warning about wrong disk geometry, but otherwise the installation seemed OK. Now what happens is: - WinME can't see the FAT32 partition on the Maxtor disk (let alone the other ones); - Mandrake Linux and Lilo can't see any partition on the Maxtor disk (so I can't boot the OSes on this disks); - Knoppix 3.7 (a live Linux CD) can see the partitions on the Maxtor disk (even the sub-partitions in the FreeBSD partitions - let me apologize here for not using the proper FreeBSD terminology) but it can't mount them properly; - FreeBSD (booted from CD) can see and mount everything properly. A couple more notes: - I made the partitions on the Maxtor CD with Slackware's fdisk; - When I boot from the FreeBSD cd (or Freesbie) I need to choose safe mode, or it will hang after detecting the Maxtor disk (maybe I should have taken this in more account...). Any idea on what went wrong and how to fix it? The data already on the Maxtor disk are not critical, but I would prefer to recover them. Thanks, Marco ____________________________________________________________ Navighi a 4 MEGA e i primi 3 mesi sono GRATIS. Scegli Libero Adsl Flat senza limiti su http://www.libero.ithelp
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