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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:10:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/16948: Sysinstall/disklabel: bad partition table when single->multiple slices 
Message-ID:  <200002291610.IAA46169@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR conf/16948; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: wayne@staff.msen.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/16948: Sysinstall/disklabel: bad partition table when single->multiple slices 
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:06:02 +0200

 On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:56:02 PST, wayne@staff.msen.com wrote:
 
 > When converting a SCSI disk from dedicated to FreeBSD with a single
 > partition to multiple slices, sysinstall leaves the OLD label on the
 > disk. Sysinstall reads and writes the new information but O/S fails
 > to boot because it is still reading the old, invalid table.
 
 Are you able to verify that this is a problem in the current FreeBSD 4.0
 RELEASE CANDIDATE?  Sysinstall's maintainer is under quite a lot of
 pressure at the moment with the upcoming release, and if you could check
 this on the 4.0 branch, I'm sure it'd be a massive help to him.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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