On Monday 27 November 2006 19:54, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
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looking at /boot/config-2.6.8-3-686, it's allowed in debian kernels:
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
Then, you need UFS filesystem support. Luckily, UFS write support is
dangerous for some versions of UFS, but it's safe for FreeBSD's UFS
(however I'm not sure if that woeks with softupdates...)
Last time I tried work with FreeBSD partitions on linux, it worked. I would
try it again, after backing up...
however, looking again at /boot/config-2.6.8-3-686, writing is not allowed
in debian kernels:
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set
Yes. I checked out the config file of my kernel, and I saw the same line there
too. But now, there's a problem. I can't boot to FreeBSD. It is giving me
some errors. I don't know if _trying_to_mount_ the FreeBSD partition on Linux
has somehow corrupted the data on it! ( But I don't seriously think mount can
do any damage). Last time I had tried to mount it, I got the errors such
as "Wrong FS Type" etc.
Anyways, keeping my fingers crossed. Can anybody tell me how do I go
about mounting the partition?
does the kernel report anything about the connected drive and
partitions on it?
I am not sure what are you trying to ask here. Does the kernel report
anything about the connected drive?? Umm.no idea! How do I check that?
Well..fdisk -l /dev/hdb says that this hard disk has a partition tagged
as FreeBSD. Does it help?
the fact that fdisk can create partition marked as FreeBSD, and fact that
fdisk can create FreeBSD disklabel on such partition, does not mean that
the kernel can do that. However using: "dmesg | grep hdb" should tell you
if your kernel recognizes it...
Ok. I guess fdisk does recognize it. What do you think?
debian:~# dmesg | grep hdb
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hdb: SAMSUNG SV0412H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 78242976 sectors (40060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1
hdb1: <bsd: hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 >
Check out the last line. Is it like I need to mount these partitions instead
of /dev/hdb1? Do they represent
Well...I am pretty new to this BSD style of Partitioning. I read in the
Handbook that FreeBSD can only be installed on a primary partition. Then I
created one Primary partition, and let it setup the partition automatically.
Then I don't know what is it called - it created like /, /var/, /usr etc
inside this primary partition. Can anybody explain this?
I guess this makes is quite relevant to my inability to mount the partition.
Here are the precise details of the setup...(it created these
folders/slices/partitions ..whatever!! ..on selecting the _auto_configure_
option.
ad1s1a 512MB / UFS2
ad1s1b 422MB / SWAP
ad1s1d 1235MB / UFS2+S
ad1s1e 512MB / UFS2+S
ad1s1f 17313MB / UFS2+S