Hi all:
I had a Slink install on my second machine, and I wanted to give
FreeBSD a try. After I installed it into the first primary partition,
I can find no way to boot into Linux. I have a boot diskette, which I
figured I would use, but it isn't happening (the booter loads, prints
out correctly that it's going to use /dev/hda5 as a root partition,
but then neither the kernel on the floppy, nor the kernel on the HD
boot; in the first case, it just hangs after 4 dots, and in the second
case it just outputs "Boot falure", and boots into FBSD right away).
I have the following setup of partitions on HD:
/dev/hda1 FreeBSD (a5)
/dev/hda2 Linux native (83)
/dev/hda3 Linux swap (82)
/dev/hda4 Extended (5)
/dev/hda5 Linux native (bootable) (83)
/dev/hda6 Linux native (83)
/dev/hda7 Linux native (83)
I tried booting with a rescue disk. It would mount /dev/hda2 w/o
problems, but not any of the partitions within the extended one.
When I try to mount /dev/hda5 or /dev/hda7, it says "ufs not supported by
kernel". When I try to mount /dev/hda6, it gives a screenful of error
messges having something to do with inodes.
Any ideas what could have happened?
in case it would be helpful, here's fdisk's output from FreeBSD
(meanwhile I'll try investigating how to mount those partitions from
FreeBSD):
door:/# fdisk
******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1023 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1023 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 2076480, size 2048256 (1000 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 515/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1022/ sector 63/ head 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 131,(Linux filesystem)
start 1463616, size 612864 (299 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 363/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 514/ sector 63/ head 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
start 1330560, size 133056 (64 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 330/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 362/ sector 63/ head 63
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 5,(Extended DOS)
start 63, size 1330497 (649 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 329/ sector 63/ head 63
Thanks for any input!
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