Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-05-21 Thread Pete Carah
Some points - I've done most of these... 1. Grub can boot from a secondary partition (my current laptop has a recovery partition in 1, vista (b) in 2, fbsd in 3, and linux in 4 as 2 secondary partitions.) works fine. Grub doesn't boot vista correctly, but handles bsd fine and (of course)

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > > FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really > > see your problem.

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:30:43 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > FreeBSD is not happy with MS 'extended partitions'. But, I don't really > see your problem. You are not using Microsloth for anything. That's why I'm not sur

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Gyrd Thane Lange
ill...@gmail.com skrev: 2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson : On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this still the case? They show up just fine here (8-

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:45:07AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: > I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD > 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as > well as CentOS 5.3 Linux. > > Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/26 Jorg Andersson : > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: >> I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all > > I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this > still the case? They show up just fine here (8-current), and I am

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread Jorg Andersson
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:45:33PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > I don't recall FreeBSD supporting extended partitions... at all I remember reading they aren't in /dev/ but still is mountable. Is this still the case? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Michael David Crawford wrote: > I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD > 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well > as CentOS 5.3 Linux. > > Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/4/26 Michael David Crawford : > I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing.  I have FreeBSD > 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well > as CentOS 5.3 Linux. > > Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions - "slices" in > the FreeBSD pa

Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread Michael David Crawford
I have a machine I plan to use solely for testing. I have FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT on it right now, and would like to add FreeBSD 7.2-RC2 as well as CentOS 5.3 Linux. Presently I have three Master Boot Record primary partitions - "slices" in the FreeBSD parlance, if I understand correctly: - A L