--- Big Brother told Chad R. Larson to write, at 16:25 of October 5:
> Is there some rule that says there can only be one FreeBSD partition
> on a disk drive?
I don't think so.
I run FBSD-3.3RC on my drive (and ran it this way since 3.1R) with 3
main partition (that we call slices in FBSD, if I'm not mistaken):
1: FAT32 (win 98)
2: FBSD (/ /var /usr ...)
3: FBSD (/home)
My kernel is on 2: and I boot by there. Without any problems.
I use the OS-BS boot selector though.
> Here's the story. This machine on which I type is a 166 MHz
> Pentium, with 32 MB of RAM and an Adaptec on-the-motherboard SCSI
> controller. Its single hard drive is a 4GB Segate. The boot dmesg
> output is attached if you want further details. It's running
> FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE, CVSup'd and built in July.
>
> It has been set up to dual-boot NT workstation and FreeBSD. But the
> dual booting proved to be too much hassle, so I obtained a second
> machine, loaded Win95 on it and left this one in BSD. Lately, I've
> been getting short on disk space in the BSD world (doesn't
> everyone?) and decided to poach some of the NT space.
Ok.. So the machine isn't dual-booting anymore, right? Then why not
make a backup and dedicate the drive to BSD?
> The disk had been set with FDISK partitions like this:
>
> 1 500MB type 6 dos (FAT, NT C: drive)
> 2 1.5GB type 5 dos (NTFS, NT D: drive)
> 3 2.0GB type 165 FreeBSD
> 4 unused
>
> I ran "fdisk -2 -u sd0", and changed the partition type from 5 to
> 165. When I attempted to reboot, BootEazy offered me
>
> F1 dos
> F2 BSD
> F3 BSD
>
> but F3 refuses to boot. When I hit F3, or allow the timeout to take
> that as a default, the cursor moves down one line and to the left
> margin and then the machine hangs. I can CTL-ALT-DEL back around to
> the BootEazy prompt. F2 also does not boot (I didn't expect it to,
> but wondered if the partitions got reordered somehow in BootEazy's
> mind). F1 =does= boot NT.
This is strange. Have you tried to revert things as they were before?
> If I boot the 2.2.8-RELEASE live filesystem CD, and drop into fixit
> mode, I can set the type on partition 2 to 0, and I can boot again.
> Partition 2 disappears from the BootEazy menu.
As I said earlier, maybe you should try OS-BS. It's available in the
'tools' directory (if I remember correctly) of the ftp archive.
With it, you can select which OS (slice, in fact) to show on boot, and
which not.
> If we get past this, then I'll be asking why disklabel doesn't seem
> willing to work against sd0s2c.
It would help to see the output of fdisk and disklabel for the
apropriate disks.
'hope that helps...
ants.
[snipped dmesg output]
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