Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 08:45:57 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting freebsd (multiple slices on a disk) Message-ID: <19980413084557.12373@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410230559.28437N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:08:46PM -0700 References: <9804091649.AA17011@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980410230559.28437N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White: |On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Marty Leisner wrote: |> My disk layout (from linux fdisk) is: |> : leisner@compudyne;bsdfdisk -l |> |> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 826 cylinders |> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes |> |> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System |> /dev/hda1 1 1 127 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M |> /dev/hda2 * 128 128 534 820512 5 Extended |> /dev/hda3 825 825 825 2016 a OS/2 Boot Manager |> /dev/hda4 535 535 686 306432 b5 Unknown |> /dev/hda5 * 128 128 254 256000+ 7 OS2 20.0 |> /dev/hda6 * 255 255 381 256000+ 7 OS2 20.0 |> /dev/hda7 * 382 382 407 52384+ 83 Linux native |> /dev/hda8 408 408 509 205600+ 83 Linux native |> /dev/hda9 510 510 534 50368+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M NO NAME | |Huh?? What is this displaying? No disk can have more than 4 slices and I |count 8. What does a DOS fdisk look like? AFAIK, Linux numbers its partitions 1-4 for DOS partitions (aka FreeBSD slices), and the rest are the extended partitions within the extended DOS partition (slice). If you look at the start/end numbers, you can see that hda5-9 all lie within the bounds of hda2, which is the DOS extended. "slice". Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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