From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 11:08:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805FD16A4D0 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 11:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4290143D31 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 11:08:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0776B72DCB; Fri, 28 May 2004 11:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04FC372DB5; Fri, 28 May 2004 11:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:07:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: J Lachlan Kanaley In-Reply-To: <20040528022532.GA637@203-219-108-14-nsw.tpgi.com.au> Message-ID: <20040528110348.K62893@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040528022532.GA637@203-219-108-14-nsw.tpgi.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10-RELEASE install badness X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:08:24 -0000 On Fri, 28 May 2004, J Lachlan Kanaley wrote: > Hello all, not quite sure if this belongs on this list, so let me > know if it doesn't! > > I downloaded 4.10-RELEASE last night and had a go at installing it > this morning. I wanted to put it onto the same disk as > 5.2.1-RELEASE and repartitioned the drive > ad1s1 - 5.2.1 > ad1s2 - 4.10 > ad1s3 - FreeBSD but nothing on it > ad1s4 - ufs filesystem Interesting layout :) > however disklabel in the install program got it wrong and (i think) > swapped the disklabels for the first and second slices around. The > result was that 4.10 booted up fine, but appeared to have the wrong > disklabel (the ones that should have been on slice 1) and I lost my > 5.2.1 install (could not boot and could not mount the drives, with > mount complaining of an invalid super block and the bootloader > complaining about no ufs filesystem). I wonder if this was more due to installing a non-UFS2 loader that thought it should be looking at the UFS2 (5.2) partition. 5.x loaders will work fine for 4.x systems, but not the other way around. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org