Greetings, everyone.
I have a 4GB flash drive which decided to partition into 4 partitions, in a following manner using gpart:
Last 3 partition have bootstrap code, and there is boot manager loaded into mbr.
Partition 1 is fat, since I need access to windows. Partitions 2 and 3 hold installations for FreeBSD i386/amd64. Last partition holds the actual installation of FreeBSD. This is convenient for me since I often need an access to random computer and could choose to install FreeBSD as well.
While the boot manager (boot0) is readable by most of these computers I go to, sometimes upon choosing an option the system restarts. This happens every time on my Toshiba Tecra laptop, which is just a normal one year old system working fine with uptodate BIOS.
I can't provide more information since there is nothing in BIOS looking strange to me, and no messages are printed on screen after I make my choice.
I was wondering what could the explanation be. What could possible be confusing the laptop to restart itself.
Another thing - When installing FreeBSD on a system, sometimes I need to load following modules beforehand or fdisk in sysinstall won't work:
Now I have some vague idea why this is required but I don't understand why is it only needed in specific cases, mostly when there is already some filesystem preinstalled on a disk (FAT, NTFS).
Finally, I would really like to know where can I find a COMPLETE list of fdisk and gpart commands for FreeBSD 8.1 ; the man pages are not complete.
Thanks.
I have a 4GB flash drive which decided to partition into 4 partitions, in a following manner using gpart:
Code:
gpart show da0
=> 63 7843752 da0 MBR (3.7G)
63 3481569 1 !11 (1.7G)
3481632 1535940 2 freebsd [active] (750M)
5017572 1535940 3 freebsd (750M)
6553512 1286208 4 freebsd (628M)
7839720 4095 - free - (2.0M)
Last 3 partition have bootstrap code, and there is boot manager loaded into mbr.
Partition 1 is fat, since I need access to windows. Partitions 2 and 3 hold installations for FreeBSD i386/amd64. Last partition holds the actual installation of FreeBSD. This is convenient for me since I often need an access to random computer and could choose to install FreeBSD as well.
While the boot manager (boot0) is readable by most of these computers I go to, sometimes upon choosing an option the system restarts. This happens every time on my Toshiba Tecra laptop, which is just a normal one year old system working fine with uptodate BIOS.
I can't provide more information since there is nothing in BIOS looking strange to me, and no messages are printed on screen after I make my choice.
I was wondering what could the explanation be. What could possible be confusing the laptop to restart itself.
Another thing - When installing FreeBSD on a system, sometimes I need to load following modules beforehand or fdisk in sysinstall won't work:
Code:
load geom_label
load geom_bsd
load geom_bsd
Now I have some vague idea why this is required but I don't understand why is it only needed in specific cases, mostly when there is already some filesystem preinstalled on a disk (FAT, NTFS).
Finally, I would really like to know where can I find a COMPLETE list of fdisk and gpart commands for FreeBSD 8.1 ; the man pages are not complete.
Thanks.