From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 21:10:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC69106566B for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:10:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069568FC0A for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A2EEF.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.46.239]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o6DL9eaK042357; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:09:41 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6DL9W11007211; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:09:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6DL9Nb2011189; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:09:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201007132109.o6DL9Nb2011189@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Dimitry Andric From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200." <4C3CAA05.6080800@andric.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:09:23 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:10:24 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: Dimitry Andric > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200 > Message-id: <4C3CAA05.6080800@andric.com> Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2010-07-13 19:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso > > sysinstall failed to correctly repartition a previously partitioned disc. > > fdisk however correctly wrote the new slices to the disk, > > but sysinstall did not pick up the new slices, so we had to enter fixit > > & overwrite beginning of disk with > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1024 count=100 > > PS sysinstall saw /dev/ad0 & /dev/ad0a > > Were those partitions 'dangerously dedicated' Yes probably, I can't be certain though, as recent FreeBSD fudges /aliases ad0s1a to ad0a if s1 is active fdisk slice. > and created by an older > (pre-8.x) sysinstall? Yes definately. Most Probably on my 8.0-rel i386 laptop Definately not on the laptop I was trying with 8.1-RC2. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text. Not HTML, Not quoted-printable, Not Base64.