Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:26:18 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso Message-ID: <4C3CD9FA.5090801@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <201007132109.o6DL9Nb2011189@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201007132109.o6DL9Nb2011189@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On 2010-07-13 23:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> 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. IIRC, in FreeBSD before 8 you got both ad0s1a and ad0a in /dev, when you had DD partitions, but since GEOM_BSD was replaced by GEOM_PART_BSD this is no longer the case. As far as I have tried out, it is no longer possible to use sysinstall to actually install on a DD partition, neither with 8.1 nor with -current. Sysinstall simply does not allow you to directly label a 'raw' disk, you must make an MBR partition first. I usually just start a fixit shell from the DVD, run bsdlabel directly on the target device, newfs it, and unpack the distributions myself... > Yes definately. Most Probably on my 8.0-rel i386 laptop > Definately not on the laptop I was trying with 8.1-RC2. Did that latter laptop also show the same problem?
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