Subject: [HELP] partitions and bootblocks
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Hobley <davidh@wr.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/05/1998 23:11:19
Hello,

Would someone mind helping me out with a couple of partitioning questions
please. I have looked on the NetBSD site at the various information sources
there and am still somewhat confused.

I have 2 discs, 1 SCSI, 1 IDE. When I installed NetBSD I unplugged the IDE 
drive (- call me paranoid, but, I wanted to be safe) and installed everything
onto the entire SCSI disc. This works fine. However, when I plugged my IDE
drive back in, the bootblocks no longer work (that is, when I select the NetBSD
partition from my boot manager, it tells me that disc is not bootable (and I 
have to boot from floppy). My first question is:

How can I write bootblocks onto one of my discs so that I can boot NetBSD
up without a floppy - without destroying my Win95 partition on the IDE drive ;-)

Secondly - when I partitioned my IDE drive for Win95 I created 1 primary
partition and 2 logical partitions in an extended partition (I think that is
the correct terminology). Is it possible to disklabel this disc to access one
of those logical partitions under NetBSD ?

When I run fdisk(8), it tells me I only have 2 partitions on the IDE drive -
a primary partition and an extended partition. It doesn't seem to see the
logical partitions at all.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Cheers,
david		-- http://www.angelfire.com/wa/hobley