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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:41:26 +0000
From:      "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Something since June 8th clobbers my disk...
Message-ID:  <3a142e750906111641w73d991a7ld22ff9a9150404e0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net>
References:  <212AA509-6A5D-4D43-8B02-A31E636A8D40@airwired.net>

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On 6/11/09, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> wrote:
> Okay.  I did a
>
> 	make buildkernel && installkernel
>
> and rebooted, no problems.
>
> I then did a
>
> 	make buildworld
>
> and rebooted, no problems.
>
> I then did a
>
> 	make installworld
>
> which completed normally, rebooted, and
>
> BINGO - my disk partition table has been zapped.
>
> The problem appears to be something that runs during this 'make
> installworld'!
>
> There are no problems with the build itself that I can tell, but some
> program is munging the disk partition table.
>
> In a zany sort of way this is progress.  Of course now I have to
> reinstall the OS, again...

Looks like boot(8) is problematic.
Anything in /etc/src.conf or /etc/make.conf?

-- 
Paul



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