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Subject: bin/7337: Serious "gotcha" for newbies with creating partitions
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>Number:         7337
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Creating a partition "before" the boot partition leaves you unable to boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 20 16:20:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alfred Perlstein
>Organization:
HotJobs Inc.
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

FreeBSD-current as of july 19th

>Description:

if you have multiple partitions like so:
1-DOS
2-DOS
3-FreeBSD (root partition here)

then add another freebsd partition like so:
1-DOS
2-FreeBSD (just more space)
3-FreeBSD (root/boot)

then you change partition 2 to a FreeBSD partition you can't boot from partition 3 anymore,
this is on a partition > 1024 i think.


>How-To-Repeat:

you can use sysinstall to do it, or manually create/change the partition

>Fix:
don't know, but you can boot again if you use a install floppie to remove the extra partition.  after you make it ANY kinda of non-freebsd partition, you can boot from it. (ext2fs/dos/nothing)	

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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