From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 11:47:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0976837C1DC for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29021; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA36680; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200007031848.LAA36680@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:48:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Garance A Drosihn Subject: RE: Error msgs about partition/slices on multi-OS setup Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Jul-00 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 11:46 PM -0700 7/1/00, John Baldwin wrote: >>On 30-Jun-00 Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> > My PC has two IDE hard disks in it. The first one is on the >> > motherboard's IDE controller (and thus is ad0), and is setup as: >> >>Could you respond and include the output of fdisk on each disk? >>I.e., include 'fdisk ad0' and 'fdisk ad4'. Thanks. > > Gladly... Ok, for one thing only your first Linux partition is an extended partition. The one on the second disk is a primary partition. It seems that for some reason we are treating the Linux partition as a BSD partition. Do you have entries for these slices in /etc/fstab? If so, are they ffs entries or ext2fs entries? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message