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From: 346rbkk@cmich.edu
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Subject: Can't use a deleted DOS logical drive, can't boot (with Promise EIDE Max disk controller)
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>Number:         2337
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Can't use a deleted DOS logical drive, can't boot (with Promise EIDE Max disk controller)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 31 08:50:01 PST 1996
>Closed-Date:    Tue Dec 31 12:58:29 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Tue Dec 31 13:00:01 PST 1996
>Originator:     Sing-Cheong Ong
>Release:        2.1.6
>Organization:
Central Michigan University
>Environment:
>Description:
First I tried to install Free BSD on my 486, without success, 
it did't even boot up. I guess it has been the Promise EIDE Max disk 
controller, which I need for a 1.2 gb drive. The computer is a Laser 
486SX/2 made by VTECH. It came with 2 mb ram, upgraded to 12 mb. 
It had a 102 mb Seagate hdd, upgraded to Western Digital 1.2 gb hdd. 
The processor is an Intel 486/DX4 75mhz over drive. When I turned on 
the computer, it just stuck with the floppy drive light on and no 
response. That is after it checks through the BIOS and IRQ for the 
controller.

Then  I tried to install Free BSD into a logical drive deleted from  
the DOS extended partition on my new Pentium 133 mhz. 
But Free BSD can't make use of it. Linux 
lists all the DOS logical drives, and when one or more is deleted, it 
allows the creation of a partition for Linux, whereas Free BSD does not 
list logical drives in the extended DOS partition, so when a DOS logical drive is deleted, the 
extended DOS partition is still of the same size. (I partition large 
drives into small, around 250 mb logical drives, under DOS, so that 
the alocation units would be smaller, 4k instead of 16k or even 32k, 
and wasting huge overhangs. I installed Linux 
in a deleted DOS logical drive on the 486 mentioned above, with no 
problem whatsoever, with that same Promise EIDE Max controller. My new 
one also has Linux running and X windows also just like the old one.) 
I guess what this 
amounts to is that Free BSD can't be installed in a DOS logical drive 
in the DOS extended partition, but Linux can. Am I right? If this is 
the case, one of the improvements Free BSD can make is to make this 
possible, as Linux does. I am confident that this second attempt will 
work if I back everything up and repartition the drive, or get another 
drive. But it will be nice if the way I  have tried works also.

Thank you for your attetion. Happy holidays!

Sing-Cheong Ong
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>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 31 12:58:29 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
FreeBSD does not support installing into a DOS extended partition 
and probably never will, sorry! :( 

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: 346rbkk@cmich.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/2337: Can't use a deleted DOS logical drive, can't boot (with Promise EIDE Max disk controller) 
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:58:21 -0800

 > amounts to is that Free BSD can't be installed in a DOS logical drive 
 > in the DOS extended partition, but Linux can. Am I right? If this is 
 > the case, one of the improvements Free BSD can make is to make this 
 
 Correct.
 
 						Jordan
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