From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 3 21:47:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E627F1065670 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:47:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp164.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp164.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB248FC16 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay16.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay16.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 0F91E1B4038; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:47:52 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay16.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 638391B4278; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:47:50 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:47:48 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: David Rawling , Message-ID: Thread-Topic: my slices are gone Thread-Index: Acp0M7o67NNXkTTbLU6SOVde0C5iJQAICRqdAAKZo5UAAIY3/wAAeL6S In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: my slices are gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:47:53 -0000 On 12/3/09 4:34 PM, "David Rawling" wrote: > -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org on behalf of Tom Worster >> Sent: Fri 4/12/2009 8:19 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: my slices are gone >> >> using sysinstall on the 8.0-RELEASE ISO Disk 1, i looked at the status of >> the disks and found some alarming things: >> >> the label editor shows no labels on either disk. that seems pretty bad. >> >> and the slice editor says: >> >> Disk slicing warning: >> chunk 'ad6p1' [40..409639] does not start on a track boundary >> chunk 'ad6p2' [409640..1464784583] does not start on a track boundary >> >> which seems pretty bad in two different ways. >> >> would anyone disagree that freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade has left >> this system unusable and the only next step is reformat at reinstall (that >> old windows routine)? > > I'm barely starting off in the FreeBSD world after a long hiatus, but might > you perchance have been using Dangerously Dedicated disks? It doesn't seem to > match the disk layout but you never know. > > Lots of people have had trouble since DD mode disappeared (it took me ages to > figure out why my VMs with DD mode always broke). i don't really see why this should have been working and then stop working on a freebsd-update.