From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 8 01:29:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1291A106566C for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lenthe@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22568FC13 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 01:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.60]) by QMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dycK1c0041HzFnQ581G27g; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:16:02 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.112] ([71.224.172.79]) by OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id e1G71c0061j8Znr3a1G7Wd; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:16:07 +0000 From: Jason Lenthe To: Frank Mitchell In-Reply-To: <200909051717.15321.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> References: <200909051717.15321.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:16:06 -0400 Message-Id: <1252372566.5934.17.camel@vader> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ukfreebsd@uk.freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Death By NetBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:29:38 -0000 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