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Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD?
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David O'Brien writes:
 > 
 > FreeBSD with a GEOM kernel can understand a Solaris FFS.  A non-GEOM
 > kernel can also, but fsck is deadly.  At this point, though all you care
 > about is that FreeBSD can understand a Solaris disk label.  You can now
 > boot the ISO and install FreeBSD onto 'a'.
 > 
There has to be a problem with DP1 kernel (missing options?) because
FreeBSD can't read disklabel or mount 'a' ?

# disklabel -r ad0
disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
# mount /dev/ad0a /mnt
mount: /dev/ad0a on /mnt: incorrect super block

  Tomppa

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