From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 13:25:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6107106566B for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:25:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: from bizet.nethelp.no (bizet.nethelp.no [195.1.209.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27A618FC18 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 98937 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2009 13:25:28 -0000 Received: from bizet.nethelp.no (HELO localhost) (195.1.209.33) by bizet.nethelp.no with SMTP; 16 Dec 2009 13:25:28 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:25:28 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <20091216.142528.74661073.sthaug@nethelp.no> To: ben@morrow.me.uk From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: <20091216121326.GA46703@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> References: <7BA0C6CC-A1D9-49C2-942D-D46C19E9B3CB@mac.com> <20091216.113300.74685382.sthaug@nethelp.no> <20091216121326.GA46703@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:25:31 -0000 > > > If you installed "dangerously dedicated" and ended up > > > with ad0s1a (note the "s1"), then you have an invalid > > > partitioning and FreeBSD 8.x will not give you what > > > you've been getting on FreeBSD 7.x. Most of the time > > > you only need to wipe out the second sector on the > > > disk to clean it up and have FreeBSD 8.x also give > > > you ad0s1a. > > > > So what's an easy recipe we can run on 7.x hosts to see whether we > > would have problems with 8.x? > > >>From what's been said so far: If you have adXsY devices in 7, *and* > > bsdlabel adX > > finds a valid label (*note*: that is the whole disk, not the slice), > then you have conflicting BSD and MBR labels at the start of the disk > and you will have a problem in 8. So presumably if I have root on ad4s1a today, and bsdlabel shows # bsdlabel ad4 bsdlabel: /dev/ad4: no valid label found then I am ready for FreeBSD 8.x? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no