Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:53:28 +0700 From: Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apparent regression in extended/logical partition handling Message-ID: <AANLkTimB9RTFLRzSCD3=r=MR5yxO3VrhXyiDqTOGo94b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C76EC39.9020500@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C76EC39.9020500@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> 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
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