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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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