From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 11:39:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.iastate.edu (mailhub.iastate.edu [129.186.1.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B9F14DFF for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:39:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rhawkins@iastate.edu) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (eyry.econ.iastate.edu [129.186.32.221]) by mailhub.iastate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA24470; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:39:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from eyry.econ.iastate.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by eyry.econ.iastate.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:39:03 -0600 (EST) Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 (debian) To: zhihuizhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A multi-OS Installation of FreeBSD 2.2.8 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:14:41 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:39:03 -0600 From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG zhihuizhang wrote, > > I got three primary partitions in my machine and the FreeBSD is the last. > I tried to setup the primary master disk in BIOS as follows: > > type size clyls head precomp landz sector mode > user 6449 784 255 0 13327 63 LBA I've found, after much difficulty, that FreeBSD doesn't like the way linux fdisk allocates logical partitions within the extended partition. They are done in a way that makes bsd think there's an invalid disklabel. Sometimes it complains, and sometimes the kernel give a paging error and panics/reboots (but with a countdown). I've found no way around this save rebooting until success. And I'm seeing no evidence so far that linux and freebsd can coexist on the sam e machine :( 3.1 may haave solved the problems with 3.0 trashing ext2 filesystems, but i can't take the risk. Linux kernel 2.2 can r/w mount ufs filesystems, but it seems to do something not quite right. I ran with a ufs partition on /home for about three days, I got plenty of errors from netscape (while supposedly idling) that it had an error mounting the bookmark file. THen, suddenly, any attempt to write to /home crated an error message that it was a read-only file system--contrary to what mount reported. And any attempt to umount irretrevably hung, impervious even to -9 . . . and there's no ability to fsck a ufs partition from linux. ANd with my bsd partition before my linux partition, partition numbers change mid-way through boot. And heaven forbid that this cause linux to attempt to mount a ufs partition as ext2, as this kills it beyond recovery. So booting is a problem with both installed, and even once you're up, you can't share files unless you run them through a dos or minix partition . . . rick, who's given up -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message