Re: FreeBSD can't see OpenBSD slice

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:10:15 +1030
On Thursday 26 March 2009 12:25:42 Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I installed OpenBSD 3.5 in a 25GB slice on a 160GB SATA HDD.
>
> Now when i power up the system and boot into a FreeBSD
> instalation CD (8.x 200902 snapshot), the Fdisk partition editor
> shows the entire disk as unused.
>
> Are slices created with OpenBSD tools not seen in FreeBSD ?

I would say it depends how you made the slices..

If they aren't valid DOS partitions then I guess OpenBSD didn't do the right 
thing.

Or FreeBSD is rejecting valid partitions, is there anything in dmesg about it?

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