Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:16:06 -0400 From: Jason Lenthe <lenthe@comcast.net> To: Frank Mitchell <mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> Cc: ukfreebsd@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Death By NetBSD Message-ID: <1252372566.5934.17.camel@vader> In-Reply-To: <200909051717.15321.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> References: <200909051717.15321.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk>
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On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 17:17 +0100, Frank Mitchell wrote: > Recently I installed NetBSD, then found FreeBSD wouldn't start. I had this > problem before and believed it was due to a bug in the NetBSD Boot Selector, > which I avoided installing. But this time it looked as if my FreeBSD > Partition got wiped completely. > > Re-trying, it looked like NetBSD spotted the FreeBSD FFSv2 Partition and > decided to assign it a Mount Point of "/". This is listed if you look > closely under "NetBSD Disklabel Partitions... last chance to change". I > edited that Mount Point away and afterwards my (reinstalled) FreeBSD was > still present. That similar to a problem I ran into a while back after installing NetBSD for dual booting on a disk that already had FreeBSD installed. I figured out that the NetBSD disklabel command labels all slices on the disk, even those your aren't installing NetBSD into. Fortunately, I saved off my FreeBSD bsdlabel output so restoring my partition layout was easy once I figured out the situation. And I didn't have to restore any data either. Sincerely, Jason Lenthe
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