From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 13 12:20: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9F037B423 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4DJK2J30805; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105131920.f4DJK2J30805@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Dahlqvist Subject: Re: misc/27303: Error during Commit: Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Dahlqvist Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/27303; it has been noted by GNATS. From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Dahlqvist To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: misc/27303: Error during Commit: Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:11:37 +0200 Szilveszter Adam wrote: > - You are not trying to install FreeBSD onto an extended partition, are > you. That will not work. FreeBSD wants a primary partition. Guilty as charged. All my primary partions are taken with Linux partitions, so an extended partition was all I had. Shouldn't FreeBSD warn you about this though? At least if you set this partition bootable... Thanks for your quick help! > - Also you should be aware that your root (/) parition should go before the > 1024th cylinder on your hdd or you may have problems booting. But that > comes later:-) I was planning on using LILO to boot FreeBSD too, like I boot linux. -- André Dahlqvist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message