Can't mount ad0s2 - sourced

Andy Farkas andyf at speednet.com.au
Sun May 18 17:09:24 PDT 2003


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Brian Astill wrote:

> I asked a question about my inability to mount /dev/ad02.
> The drive is partitioned DOS-DOS-FBSD.
>
> If I set up the partitions Primary1-Primary2-Primary3, WinNT "hides"
> Primary2, and I have to "unhide" using Partition Magic every time I
> boot into that hateful OS.  However, I CAN acess Primary2 from FBSD.
>
> If I set up the partitions Primary1-Logical1-Primary2, WinNT is happy,
> but Logical1 cannot be mounted by FBSD.
>
> Looks like there is no way round the DOS/BIOS limitation.  :-(
>

Sure there is. Show us what fdisk and disklabel say.

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        Andy Farkas
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   Speednet Communications
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