From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 7:59: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D5137B589 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 07:58:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from gimpy (hutch-195.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.95]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA19766 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:58:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <000701bfac6b$b4c5c000$625662d1@gimpy.visi.com> From: "jpaetzel" To: "FBSD-questions" Subject: win98, freebsd, new hard drive, strange things Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:01:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0004_01BFAC41.CB58A820" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BFAC41.CB58A820 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just smoked a hard drive and so I installed a new one. Seems logical = enough. The old drive was a 6 gig partitioned as 4gigs for win98 and 2 = gigs for FBSD. =20 The new drive is a 20 gig 7200 rpm and I have it partitioned as 4 gig = win98 primary, 4gig freebsd, and then 11 gig as win extended partition. = All was well until I noticed that win98 was picking up a c:, d: and e:. = The e: was a mirror of the c:. Win98 was convinced that I had 4 gigs on = c: 11 gigs on d: and another 4 gigs on e:. Starting to sound funny? = Well, I copied some stuff to and from c: and e: to see if they were = mirrors or duplicates or whatever. When I went to boot Freebsd it was = blown away. Obviously win98 was stomping on the freebsd partition and = calling it e:. I am not sure how/why it was doing that, but I have = reproduced it three times now. (I am getting sick of installing things = on this system.) FreeBSD fdisk says this: Dos partition cyl 0-607 BSD partition cyl 608-1023 Ext. dos partition 1022-1022 ?????? (where's my other 1000 cylinders?) Win98 fdisk is more rational c: 1 pri dos 4gig 2 non-dos 4 gig 3 ext dos 11 gig d: logical drive 11gig I have truncated all this as I don't have a way at this point to copy = other than to write it down and type it in. =20 System is a AMD K6-233 128 megs of edo ram 4meg s3 virge video generic = ethernet pn0 running win98 and freebsd 3.4-release on a generic kernel. = I have had this system working for a long time with this configuration, = just can't figure out how to get win98 to play nice with the new = hard-drive....(although judging by the fdisk outputs it almost seems = like freebsd is the confused one, but then again, FBSD isn't trashing = any win partitions, either.) =20 If anyone has any ideas I am open to suggestions. I am going through = the FAQ, handbook, and archives AGAIN, but I can't see where I am doing = anything wrong. (obviously I am, though >:-) Josh ------=_NextPart_000_0004_01BFAC41.CB58A820 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I just smoked a hard drive and so I installed a new = one. =20 Seems logical enough. The old drive was a 6 gig partitioned as = 4gigs for=20 win98 and 2 gigs for FBSD.

The new drive is a 20 gig 7200 rpm and I have it = partitioned=20 as 4 gig win98 primary, 4gig freebsd, and then 11 gig as win extended=20 partition.

All was well until I noticed that win98 was picking = up a c:,=20 d: and e:. The e: was a mirror of the c:. Win98 was = convinced that I=20 had 4 gigs on c: 11 gigs on d: and another 4 gigs on e:. Starting = to sound=20 funny? Well, I copied some stuff to and from c: and e: to see if = they were=20 mirrors or duplicates or whatever. When I went to boot Freebsd it = was=20 blown away. Obviously win98 was stomping on the freebsd partition = and=20 calling it e:. I am not sure how/why it was doing that, but I have = reproduced it three times now. (I am getting sick of installing = things on=20 this system.)

FreeBSD fdisk says this:

Dos partition cyl 0-607

BSD partition cyl 608-1023

Ext. dos partition 1022-1022 ?????? (where's my = other 1000=20 cylinders?)

Win98 fdisk is more rational

c: 1 pri dos 4gig

2 non-dos 4 = gig

3 ext dos 11 = gig

d: logical drive 11gig

I have truncated all this as I don't have a way at = this point=20 to copy other than to write it down and type it in.

System is a AMD K6-233 128 megs of edo ram 4meg s3 = virge video=20 generic ethernet pn0 running win98 and freebsd 3.4-release on a generic=20 kernel. I have had this system working for a long time with this=20 configuration, just can't figure out how to get win98 to play nice with = the new=20 hard-drive....(although judging by the fdisk outputs it almost seems = like=20 freebsd is the confused one, but then again, FBSD isn't trashing any win = partitions, either.)

If anyone has any ideas I am open to = suggestions. I am=20 going through the FAQ, handbook, and archives AGAIN, but I can't see = where I am=20 doing anything wrong. (obviously I am, though >:-)

Josh

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