Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:07:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: J Lachlan Kanaley <kanaley@student.usyd.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10-RELEASE install badness Message-ID: <20040528110348.K62893@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040528022532.GA637@203-219-108-14-nsw.tpgi.com.au> References: <20040528022532.GA637@203-219-108-14-nsw.tpgi.com.au>
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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
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