Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 18:38:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk changes, anyone? Message-ID: <199609221638.SAA02381@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199609210337.AA000537071@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from Darryl Okahata at "Sep 20, 96 08:37:49 pm"
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Hi! I just have to get a question in, on something I stumbled on when installing 2.1.5-RELEASE. > (Using 'echo ... |' would be even better.) This dedicates the entire > disk to FreeBSD, and recovers 31 sectors not used in the first case > (when creating "compatible partitions", my fdisk changes round the start > sector up to an head boundary, which wastes 31 sectors in the first > example). Umm... I got myself a Medalist 2GB HDD and installed FreeBSD over FTP, and everything worked just fine. Althought I choose "Entire disk" and told it to make it a "real partition", I installed booteasy, just because. :-) Ok, so now I try and boot: F1 - BSD F5 - Disk 2 > F? (now I press F1) F1 - BSD F5 - Disk 2 > F? etc... F5 would make it go to the second disk and fail boot, but that was expected. I tried a complete reinstall with different things, and setting the bios setting for the disk to different things. No such luck. Finally, I got a tip from a friend, and booted a little win95-dos floppy and started dos fdisk. Delete nondos partition. Create primary dos partition. Reboot. Format c:. Reboot from FBSD floppy. Install everything once more, this time first deleting the dos partition and then doing just a *C*reate and hitting return to get biggest possible partition. Install finnishes, I reboot, and viola! Works like a charm. Now... Somehow it seems the little bugger called booteasy uses something in the bios or so to read the little FreeBSd boot part which gives the "Boot:" prompt. Or? Somehow it wasn't very happy with the way FreeBSD's fdisk choose to align the partition, or at least so it seems. Is this a known bug (possibly fixed) bug, or a new one to you guys? Sorry if this is something old... /Mikael
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