From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 02:23:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D55E1065697 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:23:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edhoprima@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7908FC12 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn36 with SMTP id 36so2429530iwn.13 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:23:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=u29J6KGTYaD03DeF+QYp2pqZ49wtk3lCX8g11Hy+35Q=; b=x1cndqlVncUB8OREaOTzIbGXs37j4SPDy9EQCBhNT2o+RX5reaif57nVwvWGe6bl3J ddYTeK7tMxkCD0kMu7qFXORxSpLwCHneMKrD9nV4cUa6qKrQOP19GOq/cs86rCHCJJTM dPWeYC+GXF6pcgWUgpLKQpTK1BnfQBTjS9A4Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=RCZ+nUyXr372DvPdnXm2FIawCnm0CkP2XEUeAO5OvafrvOj+Zq9et7nEda1ANOgshU 81wWDbZhXlQLxDCY6S8E7pf+Ba4tSneKbhp1EEGb7ScKNiNNGzJzfW7FTceUqAyMSG8+ RnNxNTY9pZctttmzeOem7Av8fN6IiivPEqeQ4= Received: by 10.231.31.71 with SMTP id x7mr300024ibc.33.1282874028132; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:53:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.168.83 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:53:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C76EC39.9020500@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C76EC39.9020500@FreeBSD.org> From: Edho P Arief Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:53:28 +0700 Message-ID: To: Doug Barton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apparent regression in extended/logical partition handling X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:23:59 -0000 On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > Specifically what I did was to boot Windows XP, delete all the partitions > other than the XP partition (first primary dos-style partition) and then > create a dos-style extended partition, and a logical drive inside of it, > leaving room for linux in that same extended partition. Since I want that > data volume to be fat32, and it is too large for windows to do it, I next > installed FreeBSD 9-current, in a dos-style primary partition. I got it > installed fine, but when I booted into FreeBSD 9 to format the logical > volume it could not see it. fdisk showed the right information about the > extended partition, but in /dev instead of seeing no ad0s2 and seeing ad0s5 > like I expected instead there was no ad0s5 and there were ad0s2 entries that > mirrored the ad0s3 that FreeBSD 9 was installed on. IOW, I had ad0s3 and > ad0s3[a-f] as expected, but I had the same for ad0s2 even though they were > obviously not valid. how does it look like in # gpart show ? > One side note, I was taught "back in the day" that dos-style extended > partitions always had to be at the end of the disk. Before trying the > configuration I have I searched quite a few places to find a reference to > that rule and couldn't find one. Perhaps this is something that's actually > improved in the PC world in the last 25 years? :) after 25 years, x86 world finally started adapting GPT :) -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org