From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 12:45:43 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA28614 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:45:43 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA28598 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:45:36 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA02781; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:45:16 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199503292045.PAA02781@goof.com> Subject: Re: mounting msdos, invalid fdisk partitions? To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:45:16 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503291900.AA10378@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Mar 29, 95 01:00:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1275 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Boyd Faulkner wrote: > > 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... I am. > 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. Hmm. See my other message replying to Poul. I tried building those devices with MAKEDEV but for some reason it didn't like it. -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 --- -----