Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:04:11 +1100 From: "David Rawling" <djr@pdconsec.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: my slices are gone Message-ID: <BFDFFE175893404B8BC865EE888E83B80122DC@pd-exbe.pdconsec.local> References: <C73D9C34.14478%fsb@thefsb.org>
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-----Original Message----- From: Tom Worster [mailto:fsb@thefsb.org] Subject: Re: my slices are gone =20 On 12/3/09 4:34 PM, "David Rawling" <djr@pdconsec.net> wrote: >> 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. >>=20 >> 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. I should have clarified - FreeBSD 8.0 seems to have done away with DD = disks completely. They are no longer configurable in sysinstall, for example, = and I have seen reports of failure with the 8.0 kernels on existing DD = systems, after freebsd-update. Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Email: djr@pdconsec.net
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