From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 6 05:53:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA22465 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 05:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA22426 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 05:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id OAA09146; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:52:00 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA14255; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:51:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id OAA13948; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:50:31 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601061350.OAA13948@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Odd question.. ;-) To: iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:50:30 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <15199@nwpeople.demon.co.uk> from "Iain Baird" at Jan 4, 96 05:46:33 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Iain Baird wrote: > > I recently tried > > disklabel -B sd0 > > and I can no longer boot from that drive - the kernel starts up, but > it can't find root. > > The disk was "dangerously dedicated". Should that matter? Yes, that matters. Read my other posting. Sysinstall always assignes ``sliced'' disk entries for everything except the root f/s. Since disklabel -B destroys your fdisk table (which libdisk has been creating fine, even in the `dangerously dedicated' case), your slices are invalid. Well, it should have found the root f/s however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)