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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Why FreeBSD cannot boot from fdisk partition 4 Date: 22 Aug 1995 23:38:24 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 21 Message-ID: <41dppg$q2t@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov I just discovered that FreeBSD cannot boot from physical partition 4 (wd0s4, not something like wd03d). It can boot from wd0s1, wd0s2, and wd0s3. If partition 3 (wd0s3) is a FreeBSD partition, then installation will give an error message: "This region cannot be used for your root partition ..." However, if this partition is used for some other O.S., then FreeBSD instalation program will not complain at all, and go ahead installing everything onto the partition wd0s4. However, after instalation, this partation is not BOOTABLE. FreeBSD boot manager cannot boot it, DOS boot manager says: "missing O.S.". If this is the true, the FreeBSD installation program should explicitly control it and do not install it as boot partition. If this is a bug, then it should be fixed in next release. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |