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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>
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Cc: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:13:57 -0500
Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote:

> No worries on missing it, I'm not sure that helped, I farted around
> with it again earlier today with little more in the way of success.
> What I tried was to just set up '/' and swamp and it still prompted
> me about not being able to find /dev/ad4s1b.

See my post later in the thread: this most likely has nothing to do
with the partition layout but the fact that FreeBSD is finding an old
partition scheme.

-- 
Bruce Cran