From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 11:02:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA25983 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:02:53 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA25976 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:02:47 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA13288; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:02:19 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA10378; Wed, 29 Mar 95 13:00:43 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9503291900.AA10378@olympus> Subject: Re: mounting msdos, invalid fdisk partitions? To: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:00:42 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503290720.CAA00284@goof.com> from "matthew c. mead" at Mar 29, 95 02:20:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1348 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I didn't notice any functional difference until I tried to mount the msdos > partition on my second hard drive this evening. I still get the problems > at boot when the drives are first accessed and partitions are "rejected" for > not residing entirely within the freebsd slice. For some reason this is now > preventing me from mounting /dev/sd1e (which used to work). Anyhow, if anyone > knows what's up, please let me know. Thanks! > Assuming you are running current... msdos partitions are now, no longer put into the disklabel but are detected separately. Figure out which partition the DOS partition is in and access that as /dev/sd1sX where X is 1,2,3,4. Extended partitions are 5,6,... Remember that the output of FreeBSD fdisk is 0,1,2,3 so you must add 1. Boyd > > > -matt > > -- > Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - > -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration > Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other > ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- ----- > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________