From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 01:22:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA07261 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 01:22:53 -0800 Received: from sol.cyberdesic.com (sol.cyberdesic.com [206.68.129.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA07242 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 01:22:46 -0800 Received: (from csh@localhost) by sol.cyberdesic.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id DAA09617; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 03:22:26 -0600 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 03:22:25 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Sheldon Subject: scsi primary partition? To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello-- I have FreeBSD running on a 486dx2/66(Cyrix) with a VLB IDE controler. I want to put a adaptech 1542CF scsi card and a 1 gb disk on the system, but I'm having all kinds of problems. I can't get the bootfloppy to see the scsi card, so I just installed to my IDE drive and recompiled the kernel without some drivers. I have the system booted up from an IDE drive with the recompiled kernel and all seems to work fine until I try to start up /stand/sysinstall. It never sets up the partitions on the disk that I specified in the two disk editing screens. I did try booting -c from the boot floppy. Didn't work. :( I tried to config the scsi disk from the CLI, and I got this: % disklabel sd0 sd0: invalid primary partition table: no magic The disk was on a DOS machine previous to this. This disk is a DEC RZ26L 1001M drive. I'm pretty sure it has variable geometry. I've seen everything from 4 to 64 heads reported from this drive. If *ANYONE* knows how to get a primary partition table back on it, I'd be forever grateful. I've already tried creating an entry in /etc/disktabs and then doing disklabel -w -r /dev/sd0c rz26l foo I can actually get a 1GB partition newfs'd and mounted, but I would rather have several different partitions for /usr, /var, etc... Thanks, Chris. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chris Sheldon System Administrator csh@cyberdesic.com CyberDesic Communication Corp brodie@pager.bradley.edu 309.676.3768