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From: Justin Hawkins <justin@tardis.mx.com.au>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't boot to partition 'e'
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Thankyou very much Greg, this worked a treat!

	- Justin

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> Sure.  Do:
> 
>  # disklabel -e wd0s1
> 
> You'll get the disk label in the editor.  The end will look something
> like:
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   b:   102400    61440      swap                        # (Cyl.   60*- 162*)
>   c:  2504817        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2484*)
>   e:    61440        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 60*)
>   f:  2340977   163840    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  162*- 2484*)
> 
> Change this to:
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   b:   102400    61440      swap                        # (Cyl.   60*- 162*)
>   c:  2504817        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2484*)
>   a:    61440        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 60*)
>   e:    61440        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 60*)
>   f:  2340977   163840    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  162*- 2484*)
> 
> (add a second line identical to the e partition with partition a).
> Exit the editor and you will have a partition a identical to e.  Edit
> your /etc/fstab to reflect the change (don't use e at all, you need to
> delete it after rebooting).  Reboot and you should have no more
> problems.  You should then delete partition e to keep things tidy.





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