Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 06:16:20 -0600 From: David Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: <doug@safeport.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot ManagerQuestions Message-ID: <01010106162000.00126@dave> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012291614480.81838-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012291614480.81838-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com>
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On Friday 29 December 2000 15:46, doug@safeport.com wrote: > I hit issues here because I have a couple of old Dell LM laptops that > make find work stations (at least through KDE 1.9). > > I have two questions: > > 1) Sometimes sysinstall leaves without (re)writing the MBR. The fix > as pointed out to me on this list by Steve Coles is "fdisk /mbr". > This (fdisk) is such dirt dumb code it would seem nothing too serious > is broken here. Is this worth fixing? > > 2) I have a new system that came no OS but had some diagonistics on a > small DOS partition. I thought it would be cool to leave them > there so I left the utility partition and divided the disk up as > follows: > > 10Mb - utility partition > 5G - FreeBSD > ~16G - win98 > > As it came from the factory, the first partition was listed (by > sysinstall) as unknown. I installed FreeBSD and then windows. > After doing windows I had to do the fdisk bit. At the end of this I > had: > > F1 = DOS (the utilities) > F2 = FreeBSD > F3 = Windows 98 > > I messed up on the sizes so I did it again. This time through, > sysinstall said "You only get one FAT" (my wording) and marked the > 3rd partition as unknown. > > How come you only get one fat? Multiple DOS partitions obviously > work in general. > > Does anyone know the MS/IBM approved codes for the various types > > 6 = DOS FAT16 > ? = DOS FAT32 > 165 = FreeBSD > ? = others > > Would sysinstall let me have a FAT16 and a FAT32? > > Thanks for any thoughts and/orpointers > > _____ > Douglas Denault > doug@safeport.com > Voice: 301-469-8766 > Fax: 301-469-0601 > List of partition types from Linux fdisk: Command (m for help): Partition number (1-10): Hex code (type L to list codes): 0 Empty a OS/2 Boot Manag 65 Novell Netware a6 OpenBSD 1 DOS 12-bit FAT b Win95 FAT32 75 PC/IX a7 NEXTSTEP 2 XENIX root c Win95 FAT32 (LB 80 Old MINIX b7 BSDI fs 3 XENIX usr e Win95 FAT16 (LB 81 Linux/MINIX b8 BSDI swap 4 DOS 16-bit <32M f Win95 Extended 82 Linux swap c7 Syrinx 5 Extended 40 Venix 80286 83 Linux native db CP/M 6 DOS 16-bit >=32 51 Novell? 85 Linux extended e1 DOS access 7 OS/2 HPFS 52 Microport 93 Amoeba e3 DOS R/O 8 AIX 63 GNU HURD 94 Amoeba BBT f2 DOS secondary 9 AIX bootable 64 Novell Netware a5 BSD/386 ff BBT The codes for BSDI are not current. BSDI-4.1 uses (IIRC) 9e. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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