Re: installing linux after freebsd (multi-boot)

,--[ On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:03:08AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote:

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| > >> On 30/12/2007, ???? <anujhere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > >>
| > >>> Hello ,
| > >>> I have freebsd6.2 installed with Fedora core 7 and rhe4.
| > >>> I am installing rhel5 , when linux installation process starts I get an
| > >>> error of /dev/hdc1 busy , can not report to kernel about partition
| > >>> layout. In the past I installed linux then FreeBSD.
| > >>> Is there some method that rhel5 installation can skip /dev/hdc1
| > >>> (freebsd slice) ? saving my freebsd installation

You get /dev/hdc1 busy error. At which step in installation, you get
/dev/hdc1 busy error, hmm...? Are you trying to remove '/dev/hdc1'
(FreeBSD slice), if yes, then you'll get error, and you probably need to
remove FreeBSD partitions (present in slice) first.

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| Hi,
| 1. I am trying to fresh install over single disk.
| 2. I have FreeBSD6.2 slice on first primary partition of the disk.

There should be absolutely no problem in installing RHEL5, even
GNU/Linux can read FreeBSD disklabels (and partitions) without any
problem :) .

| can I have a look at your partition table ?

Here is mine, I'm running Ubuntu Linux, which is installed after FreeBSD.

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00083e09

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2611 20972826 a5 FreeBSD
/dev/sdb2 2612 9229 53159085 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 9230 9254 200812 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4 9255 19457 81955597+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 9255 15373 49150836 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 15374 19329 31776538+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 19330 19457 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

| I have IDE hard disk.

Mine is SATA disk, but that should make no difference :)

| Regards.
| Anuj singh "anugunj"

HTH
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