Thank you both for the very detailed description.
It's nice to get my suspicion about boot sequencing confirmed :-)
When I installed the system yesterday (I think I'll try a re-install today
based on your input) I observed however that all the slices I made appeared
to be bootable.
As originally
Greetings,
I tried to install FreeBSD 7.0 on an old server earlier today and ran in to
a number of issues related to slicing and labeling the disk using fdisk.
The drive in the machine is a 40GB Seagate Barracude (ST34001A) installed as
a Secondary Master on the IDE bus using LBA.
The BIOS reports
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:03:58PM +0100, Jonatan Evald Buus wrote:
Greetings,
I tried to install FreeBSD 7.0 on an old server earlier today and ran in to
a number of issues related to slicing and labeling the disk using fdisk.
The drive in the machine is a 40GB Seagate Barracude (ST34001A)
Hi Jerry,
Thank you for the swift and very thorough response.
If I understand you correctly, then I should only create 1 slice of the
entire disk (seeing as FreeBSD will be the only OS) using fdisk and then
partition the slice using bsdlabels from sysinstall?
Previously I was aiming for 5 slices,
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:41:07 +0100, Jonatan Evald Buus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If I understand you correctly, then I should only create 1 slice of the
entire disk (seeing as FreeBSD will be the only OS) using fdisk and then
partition the slice using bsdlabels from sysinstall?
Yes, that's the
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:41:07PM +0100, Jonatan Evald Buus wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thank you for the swift and very thorough response.
If I understand you correctly, then I should only create 1 slice of the
entire disk (seeing as FreeBSD will be the only OS) using fdisk and then
partition the
