Subject: Dual OS Install and disklabel
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael Endrizzi <endrizzi@sctc.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/14/1995 10:04:31
Configuration:
1 gig ide drive - dual drive emulation mode (i.e. 504/504)
NetBSD and DOS dual OS installation
Problem:
I use linux fdisk to partition my primary drive (logical drive C, 504 meg)
to support DOS and NetBSD. During the install, disklabel ALWAYS ignores/can't
find the NetBSD partition (0xA5) and says:
wd0: can't find disk label on wd0
Overwriting DOS partition [n]:
if you say yes it creates it's own new partition table allocating
the whole drive (all 504 meg) to BSD. A tangent problem is the
number of sectors reserved is always 50,000 sectors which is wrong.
I looked at the disklabel source code and i can't even see the
same error messages in the code that i see displayed on the screen.
I'm not sure the inst-10.fs distribution is using the same disklabel
program.
FYI, linux installs no problem.
Any ideas?
dreez