joerch writes:

>2. i can not mount the old freebsd fstype partitions.
>i always got the message old .... partition type or something
>like this, sorry i forgot to write it down.
>is it possible do get this partition mounted without a change ?
>or do i need to backup the data and get everything done clean ?
>i mean new disklabel and format.

You need the following option in your kernel (1.5.x GENERIC
does have this option enabled, so it should work with the generic
kernel):

options         COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART # recognize old partition ID

Then it'll just spit out a warning at boot but that was it.

This option should only be useful if you're actually using the
DOS-style partition table.  On disks without one (what FreeBSD
calls "dangerously dedicated" -- what should be dangerous here
eludes me) this isn't an issue.

--mkb