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 m
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
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
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, 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
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