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From: PGOLDA@eleceng.uct.ac.za (Pete Golda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Q: FreeBSD and IDE, part II
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 07:47:56 GMT
Organization: University of Cape Town
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Message-ID: <PGOLDA.215.795167276@eleceng.uct.ac.za>
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Hi,
Thanks to Warren T. and Rob S. for their replies. However, things are
NOT so simple.
The scene again:
850 meg IDE drive on a standard IDE card.
Ontrack Systems boot manager ( so that DOS can see the whole drive if
necessary ).
Partitions:
400 meg DOS starting at cyl 0.
Last night I downloaded the "floppies" stuff and made my two installation
floppies.
I managed to boot up, and consequently get to the (F)disk menu. FreeBSD
was successful in correctly recognising my drive geometry, but then
completely screws up with reading of the partitions.
*whatever* I do, FreeBSD Fdisk tells me that my *entire* 850 meg is
allocated in *one* partition to DOS. I have tried booting with and without
the Ontrack Boot Manager - same thing. I tried allocating an 0xa5, 450 meg
partition through DOS ( the DOS Fdisk successfully recognises it ) - but
FreeBSD still claims I have only 1 big partition. On top of that, FreeBSD
doesn't even recognise the partition as being DOS, it just says "Unknown".
I've tried about 3 other fdisk programs, all of them giving me the
correct HDD layout....
I'm out of ideas.... except for this:
1. Tape stream my entire 400 meg DOS partition.
2. Delete all partitions.
3. Get rid of the Ontrack Boot Manager.
4. Run the FreeBSD installation.
5. Using the FreeBSD fdisk:
1. Make a DOS partition 400 meg starting at cyl 0.
2. Make a 450 meg FreeBSD partition.
6. Make sure that the Root slice is below cylinder 1024.
This should work, right ?
Problem is that if it doesn't, I got to spend one day trying it, and
another day reverting to what it was before.
Thanks
Pete