WARNING: fdisk vs kernel

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From: Frank Meisschaert
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:00

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I'm running FreeBSD together with linux on my computer. The disk is divided
as follows: a small part with lilo and the kernel, then FreeBSD and then
linux. Now I decided to install slackware in stead of RedHat. The bootdisk
contains a kernel which recognizes the bsd disk partitions, fdisk doesn't
know about them. However fdisk tells the install program where the linux
partitions are, in my case hda5 - hda9, which for the kernel are hda11 -
hda15. So first I overwrited some of the bsd partitions (I accepted
hda5-hda9). Luckily one of the bsd partitions ran full, so no more damage
could be done. I then reinstalled slackware but before I ran setup I deleted
the hda5-9 entries in /dev (on the ramdisk image) and remade them with minor
number 11-15. Installation was a succes (after I changed the entries in
fstab, of course).

Frank Meisschaert

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From: fmeissch@eduserv2.rug.ac.be (Frank Meisschaert)
Subject: WARNING: fdisk vs kernel
Date: 1999/01/05
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