Hello, I have a PC with Windows XP,FreeBSD-5.3 and Linux(Fedora).I use GRUB as my boot manager and I boot into FreeBSD using chainloader. I have XP and FreeBSD on primary partitions.I had a linux primary partion apart from these.I wanted to convert that to UFS2 as my /usr partition (FreeBSD) was almost full.I did that using bsdlabel and mkfs. After that the fdisk print output in linux showed the recently formated partition as type Linux.So I installed linux-fdisk using the ports collection and try to change the system-id of that partition,but it did not work.I then booted into linux and did the same using fdisk.This time it worked.But after that FreeBSD does not boot.(I don't see the rotating / and the loader.The system freezes and even numlock does not work )Here is the fdisk print output from linux:
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20060135424 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2438 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 523 4200966 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 524 905 3068415 a5 FreeBSD /*FreeBSD root partition*/ /dev/hda3 * 906 1152 1984027+ a5 FreeBSD /*Partition I formated using bsdlabel and mkfs contains ports */ /dev/hda4 1153 2439 10336536 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1153 1774 4996183+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 2406 2438 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 1775 2146 2988058+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda8 2147 2405 2080386 b W95 FAT32 Partition table entries are not in disk order When I use GRUB autocomplete feature to check the contents of the FreeBSD partions,It says Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition.(I have done this before when FreeBSD was working fine and I could see the contents of the partion). Perhaps the /boot partion needs to be fsck'ed? And if that is so how can I do it.(I found in the mail archives that fsck'ing UFS2 partitions using linux is not possible.) Thanks, Koushik Narayanan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
