On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:29:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 03:21 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> Big problem after settin up - now there are 2 active partitions - how do I
> de-activate slice 1?
> /stand/sysinstall (Fdisk) refused to mark just slice 2 as active even
> though I checked and set it two times... :((
You shouldn't be marking the modified partition active -- it's not
meant to be bootable, just some extra storage space.
> This did not work until I used /stand/sysinstall to create ad0s1e (in my
> case) with Label but this required a mount point - /new. Thereafter,
> disklabel did work after checking with -n option first. fBut there now
> seems to be a partition ad0s1a with 0 space)
> Here is the problem - no partition information, hence, cannot boot - cheked
> with PM and found both slice 1 (ad0s1) and slice 2 (ad0s2) are marked
> active - I wonder what is going on here?
> How do I fix this?
> Partition magic cannot deactivate one of the slices - only way is to delete
> slice 1 but that is not very productive... :((
Ouch. So just to clarify, which slice is which?
ad0s1 is your original FreeBSD slice containing (amongst other stuff) the
root partition on ad0s1a
ad0s2 was formerly NTFS, which you deleted using PartitionMagic and are
trying to convert into a second FreeBSD slice?
Is that correct?
Cheers,
Matthew
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