From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Serge Gagnon Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <9a2e8d658dca2d5aaacb2e6e509d9e70@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Post install probs with other OS Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:04:53 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b2e37b4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 First of all, I'm sorry for the delay between your post and mine. My isp had a "little" problem with his optical fiber... a prob that it take 3 day to fix. Secondo, I don't speak english, but I'm sure that I can make better than the first post I did...:) On Thu, 2 May 2002 18:10:31 GMT rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) wrote: > > I'm trying to understand this. The symptoms are: > > - fdisk on lots of systems can see the BSD partitions? Yes, the partition, or slices in BSD's language, are always on the disk. > - you can't mount the BSD partition in BSD? I can't mount BSD with the other BSD on my second disk that I previously disconnected before I tried to install Plan9. I also tried to mount these slices from the installation disk ( OpenBSD ) because I can escape to a shell from the installation and use some tools like mount, disklabel, fdisk, but with no success. But, I can mount from the BSD on the disk because it cannot boot... > > What does > > echo p | disk/fdisk /dev/sdXX/data > > (replace sdXX with your disk) print? /dev/sdC0/data == cylinder = 8225280 p1 0 127 (127 cylinders, 996.21MB) BSD386 *p2 127 337 (210 cylinders, 1.96GB ) Plan9 empty 337 1019 (683 cylinders, 5.22GB ) p3 1019 2932 (1913 cylinders, 14.65GB) type 166 p4 2932 4111 (1179 cylinders, 9.03BG ) BSD386 > Thanks. > Russ Ok, forget it about the solution because, the more I think about my prob, the more I think that the solution is unix specific, not plan9 :). However, I think that is a problem with plan9 and my MBR. But I don't know if this problem is "my computer specific". Plan9 has probably deleted my labels I created with BSD's disklabel(8) for my partitions inside the BSD's slice. I can see the slice type 166, but not the partitions /var, /tmp, /home, /usr and /Storage I created inside to be more specific. This, is for my two BSD ( Free and Open ) on my disk ... /dev/sdC0 or /dev/wd0... or the one that we speak about :) I'll give you some informations about my computer if it is a real probleme with plan9. Computer=pc i386 cpu=amd k62 266 disk=maxtor 40G IDE I don't know what other informations I'll can give to you, ( I'm a newbee on plan9 and unix too...) but if you'll ask some other informations, it will be a pleasure for me to answer. -- Serge Gagnon