From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 18 1:57:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B7C114DEC; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA16934; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:29:10 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199906180629.IAA16934@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:29:10 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jun 18, 99 06:13:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1498 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a > UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I ... > When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot > Record (which is silly, since it knew there were two other systems on > the disk), and it also rewrote the partition table: it changed the > numbers of the partitions. This is particularly difficult for > FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. which is not much smarter... > /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names > changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't have > device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file > system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition > table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. hit a similar problem the other day, i think i managed to fix it withouth the floppy by mounting again the root partition on /mnt and there acting appropriately. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ ==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message