Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:45:31 +0300 From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: marius.nuennerich@gmx.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, grafan@gmail.com, andrew@fubar.geek.nz Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot Message-ID: <20060517104531.ee66f23e.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060517065702.GC96341@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <4468FA1C.7040105@fubar.geek.nz> <20060516084310.05af8de4.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060516202529.1d725675@sol> <20060516230400.5178bcdf.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060516223639.0637dd0e@sol> <6eb82e0605161926y3ff4a1a3l8a369723cf7c3352@mail.gmail.com> <20060517065702.GC96341@garage.freebsd.pl>
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 08:57:02 +0200
Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:26:54PM -0400, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> +> >From bsdlabel(8):
> +>
> +> The first partition should start at offset 16, because the first 16
> +> sectors are reserved for metadata.
> +>
> +> I think BSDInstaller should change to not create first slice at offset 0.
^^^^^
Yet another "bsd slice" / "bsd partition" confusion? :-)
>
> Grrr!!! DEFINITELY! Please, first partition at offset 16.
Interesting. Sysinstall makes the first "a" partition on a slice at
offset 0 and FreeBSD works properly. What is this metadata on those
first 16 sectors of a slice and when this metadata is really used?
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