Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:08:35 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Adam=20Nealis?= <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it safe to use fdisk to do this...? Message-ID: <20010602100835.28167.qmail@web5502.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105311314270.49326-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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--- "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Adam Nealis wrote: > > > The line I've marked * has a copy of Linux installed on it. > > Is it safe to use T and set the type to 131 (Linux ext2fs), > > so it looks like this > > > > 18555075 8401995 26957069 da0s4 1 ext2fs 131 > > > > > then write the changes and on the next screen install the FreeBSD Boot > > Manager? I want to mount it, you see. > > technically, you should be able to mount it anyway. Well, before hand the partition wasn't known to fdisk at all. To boot Linux I was using a floppy. I was getting "device not configured" messages on trying mount. I did a bit of RTFM and concluded I was safe to do the above - but I want to avoid having to go through the painful task of booting a linux distro and getting an admin shell - difficult without so-called rescue disks (unlike FreeBSD). > once booted in to freebsd, > > mount_ext2fs /dev/da0s4 /mnt > > that should do the trick. > > if you install the multibooter, it should detect the ext2 > file system, and allow you to boot in to linux. That's what I thought would happen. But it's always as well to check. I'm away from the machine right now but I'll try this out on Monday. Thanks, Adam. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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