Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:56:17 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slice weirdness Message-ID: <20040812195617.GB53082@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040809081901.GB3155@afields.ca> References: <20040808211337.GB91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040809074732.GA3155@afields.ca> <20040809075228.GC91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040809081901.GB3155@afields.ca>
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--jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Resolution: it turns out to be related to the bootmanager I used to boot off the primary slave ATA drive; or at least, if I tell it to virtually swap the drives, the system boots (I still suspect something in the interaction thou= gh; this is the first time in 5 years that Smart Bootmanager has let me down -- http://btmgr.sf.net/). Now the problem is that although the boot works, something prevents me from fdisking/relabeling ad0 -- I suspect something in GEOM gets confused by the boot from 'ad0' which turns out to be 'ad1' when the FreeBSD ata driver loo= ks at things... *sigh* I'm going to try fdisk/disklabel from a fixit floppy, and if that doesn't w= ork I'll just reinstall by hand from CD, onto an ad0/ad2 gvinum mirror (which w= as the point of this frustrating exercise). Thanks for thinking along with me :) --Stijn --=20 "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure." --jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBG8thY3r/tLQmfWcRAiYdAKCYl8acoCYDC/uX73xrTj1UPDxXpQCgsEtr 3ngnBVGR03k+yQxu2fI04jI= =ITlm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes--
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