Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 10:36:32 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk incompatibility between major versions Message-ID: <b269bc570905251036l3b7534ccjf16dab34b0686e89@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A1AD6D3.7030100@rcn.com> References: <4A1AD6D3.7030100@rcn.com>
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > Due to a combination of my spectacular stupidity and external events, a > machine running -Current from late April will no longer boot. Specifically, > instead of the loader menu screen I get "Invalid partition". > Crud. > Broke out the most recent fixit disk, which is from 7.1 (Jan 2009). > Boots fine; fdisk finds the correct slice information; bsdlabel finds the > right partition data; mount / and /usr under LiveFS > Whew!!!! > So ... I'm guessing the problem in the boot code is corrupted, and if I do > > fdisk -B -b <path to -CURRENT boot blocks> da0 > > it should put things back to normal. > However: when I do the second commit I get > > fdisk: Geom not found "da0" > fdsk: failed to write sector 0 In order to alter a drive with a mounted filesystem (ie an active drive), you need to first set the drive to writable: sysctl -w kern.geom.debugflags=16 This has been the case for several years now (since 5.x I believe). -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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