Wobo, Ask some friends of mine who are BSD people. All suggestion where the same. They claim that as good as Linux fdisk is it doesn't handle BSD style partitions correctly. They suggested this.
Make an install floppy from your BSD when it boots and you get to the window that lets you chose the step you want. (This is FreeBSD Open and Net may vary) Chose partition the disk and remove the partitions there. Otherwise even though you install over them Windows and Linux fdisk will keep seeing the BSD style partition method. (for some strange reason they will work when booting just fdisk is hosed.) Once the BSD style wipes it out create your BSD partitions with Linux fdisk and then use them on the BSD install. This way when you are using Lilo or grub it will see everything correctly. I've not done this yet. My BSD is on it's own drive. But they swear it will work. They are core level people so I trust em. James On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 16:19:12 -0600 "Charlie M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > On Friday 09 August 2002 03:27 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > <snip> > > > > It works but it doesn't help much. The hda9 partition is > > there, lsparts lists all partitions like I see them in cfdisk > > but I cannot get MDK82-lilo to accept hda9 as boot partition. > > > > Thanks Charlie for the hint. > > > > Now I use partimage to save all partitions to CD-R and wipe > > the whole disk. Hopefully this will be a cure. But what if > > ..... > > > > Someone there who knows a good tutorial about > > BSD-partitioning? I read the docu at OpenBSD.org and after > > more than 8 years of Linux I did not understand anything. > > > > wobo > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I wish I knew enough to be of use. But I tried! :-) > > This is the best partitioning tutorial that I've ever read: > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/install-partitioning.html > > but this one from RedHat isn't too terrible ;-): > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.2-Manual/multi-arch/s1-alpha-diskpartitioning.html > > Once again I hope it's of some use to you. > -- > Charlie > Edmonton,AB,Canada > Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org > Insomnia isn't anything to lose sleep over. > > >
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