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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12644 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3387 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!miff From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1: Can't mount PCFS filesystem Date: 24 Aug 94 16:37:55 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <miff.777746275@apanix.apana.org.au> References: <32s973$d6k@mercury.mcs.com> <Cup4Hn.10o@tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Keywords: pcfs mount dos filesystem julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: >You can make your system boot from the OS of your choice, and >fix this problem, both at the same time.. >DOS will have left the first 31 sectors after the MBR (2-32) unused. >this is easily enough room for a dummy FreeBSD partition.. >install it using FreeBSD's fdisk. >throw one on there and disklabel it with a disklabel that >has 1 partition, just 31 sectors long. for FreeBSD. >(actually make a and c the same..) >and one partition covering the DOS partition. (this will be what you >mount from unix) That's a neat trick - I'll have to remember that when I get that far 8) >when you get tired of typing sd(1,a)386bsd, recompile the bootblocks >to use a default of 1 (test your code reading skills) rather than 0. That, my friend, is not funny 8) The bootblock code is most extremely awful, _and_ it doesn't behave like it ought to. (see my other post this morning 8) -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #