So FreeBSD *is* installed there, and it boots up ok?
Perhaps you could show us both the output of fdisk,
and the exact mount command you are using (including the
line from /etc/fstab if you aren't doing it completely
by hand).
Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
>
> Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> >
> > Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > I've recently decided to start playing with FreeBSD and in preparation,
> > > I recompiled my kernel so I would have support for ufs so I could read
> > > my BSD partitions. When I add the partition under linuxconf, whether I
> > > give it ufs or auto for the filetype, it can't seem to mount the BSD
> > > partition giving the error wrong filetype. Does anyone have any BSD
> > > experience and wouldn't mind giving me a little guidance? Thanks, Mike
> >
> > Stupid question, but ... has your BSD partition _ever_ been formatted
> > ???
> > Linuxconf, or fdisk, or whatever, will only add the partition in
> > the partition table(s) on the disk, it will not make a filesystem ...
> > (this is not specific to ufs, it would be the same with _any_
> > filesystem type).
> > Even with M$-DOG, you have to execute fdisk _then_ format.
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 74 Annemasse France
> > old Linux fan
>
> Actually, that's a pretty good question... I let the FreeBSD installer
> do most everything, just answered the questions. I went into the fdisk
> version that it provided and set the BSD slices, then set the mount
> points (tried both selecting myself and letting it set default); the
> only clue I got about formatting was that it gave a warning message that
> if I selected another filesystem besides '165', that I would need to
> format it myself and it would just set the partitions up. I guess I
> could set up the partitions as ext2 from Linux and then try assigning
> mount points from the setup disk?
>
> Mike
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