From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 07:07:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E7137B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD1343FDF for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:07:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (ru@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h57E6tP6014016 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:06:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.12.9/8.12.8/Submit) id h57E6trQ014011; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:06:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:06:55 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Martin Blapp Message-ID: <20030607140655.GD10426@sunbay.com> References: <20030607154127.G44942@cvs.imp.ch> <20030607135455.GB10426@sunbay.com> <20030607155627.M44942@cvs.imp.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030607155627.M44942@cvs.imp.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to kill a 5.0R installation with 5.1R X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 14:07:04 -0000 --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 04:00:46PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > This has been one of my laptops. It had three partitions > on it, the first one FreeBSD. >=20 > > How does it crash? >=20 > I have lilo installed. When I choose freebsd, I get the > normal freebsd loader: >=20 > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >=20 > After that, I see very fast a message scrolling > over the screen, it turns black again, and > voila, the box has rebooted. >=20 > I've killed the second box the same way. After restoring > boot0/boot1 I found that my disklables were nuked. Enjoy. >=20 Um, so what do you use? lilo or boot0? :-) Also, don't you think that it maybe a Linux part that's killing your FreeBSD disk labels? I don't believe loader(8) ever writes to this area of the disk, neither do boot0 and boot[12]. > > You mean without loader? From the boot blocks? If so, > > the support for this has been broken for a long time. > > Ask BDE for patches. :-) >=20 > Yes from the boot blocks. >=20 This is unsupported, sorry. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+4fF/Ukv4P6juNwoRAm3fAJ4gbniS+9FizTeN/ZOnA3qzE6+RCgCdGJRU l2HLinZUYn0QMMPmLDdChY4= =XEM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD--