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Date:      Mon, 05 May 2003 17:16:33 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bsdlabel question 
Message-ID:  <41986.1052147793@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 2003 09:04:16 PDT." <3EB68B7F.7050801@hotmail.com> 

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In message <3EB68B7F.7050801@hotmail.com>, walt writes:


>> Did you get a warning when you booted ?
>
>With geom_bsd.c ver 1.59 I now see this:
>
>WARNING: Expected rawoffset 139926150, found 0
>
>I remember relocating the FBSD partition on the disk using
>a third-party partitioning utility which worked just fine
>after I re-installed the FBSD boot record.

That is _exactly_ why embedding the disk-absolute offsets in
the BSD label are bad.

Let me think a bit, maybe I can find a better way to deal with this
sort of situation.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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