From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 19:56:21 2004 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 C77E116A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:56:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3452E43D5D for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:56:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (orb_rules@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7CJuIwm056140; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:56:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7CJuHe9056139; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:56:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:56:17 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Allan Fields Message-ID: <20040812195617.GB53082@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20040808211337.GB91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040809074732.GA3155@afields.ca> <20040809075228.GC91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040809081901.GB3155@afields.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jq0ap7NbKX2Kqbes" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040809081901.GB3155@afields.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slice weirdness 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: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:56:21 -0000 --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--