Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:06:49 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create a partition for FreeBSD 9.0? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211242000360.17779@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1353795280.2662.12.camel@q> References: <1353795280.2662.12.camel@q>
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On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I use the amd64 install DVD. > > With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to > ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy > to /dev/sda, the boot flag will be set for the extended > partition. /dev/sda1 is an empty ext3 partition, size 57.83 GiB. Delete it, or set it to type 0xa5. I think the first is probably better for bsdinstall to see it as available. Expect boot loaders to be overwritten, so make a backup, preferably of everything.
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