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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] patch to allow mounting of DOS drives
Date: 22 Aug 1994 23:13:28 GMT
Organization: Rivendell - APANA Brisbane.
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Julian Elischer (julian@tfs.com) wrote:
: Ok, here is a patch that I THINK should allow people to mount
: undisklabeled drives and see their DOS partitions.
: the four MBR (DOS OS2 or whatever) partitions should appear
: as partitions e,f,g and h
: e.g. rsd0e or rwd0e through rwd0h.
: If you have a disklabel that get's preference.
: I cannot test this here, so can someone out there
: please report back to me whether this works.
Doesn't work for me at least:
wd0: cannot find label (Disk has no Fdisk partitions)
wd1: cannot find label (Disk has no Fdisk partitions)
wd0: cannot find label (Disk has no Fdisk partitions)
panic: cannot mount root
wd0 and wd1 are both disklabeled; there is a MSDOG partition
on wd1 which I have never managed to mount under FreeBSD.
Commendable effort, Julian... but no dice this time.
Phil.
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
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