Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:06:55 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to kill a 5.0R installation with 5.1R Message-ID: <20030607140655.GD10426@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030607155627.M44942@cvs.imp.ch> References: <20030607154127.G44942@cvs.imp.ch> <20030607135455.GB10426@sunbay.com> <20030607155627.M44942@cvs.imp.ch>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 04:00:46PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: > > Hi, > > This has been one of my laptops. It had three partitions > on it, the first one FreeBSD. > > > How does it crash? > > I have lilo installed. When I choose freebsd, I get the > normal freebsd loader: > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > After that, I see very fast a message scrolling > over the screen, it turns black again, and > voila, the box has rebooted. > > I've killed the second box the same way. After restoring > boot0/boot1 I found that my disklables were nuked. Enjoy. > Um, so what do you use? lilo or boot0? :-) Also, don't you think that it maybe a Linux part that's killing your FreeBSD disk labels? I don't believe loader(8) ever writes to this area of the disk, neither do boot0 and boot[12]. > > You mean without loader? From the boot blocks? If so, > > the support for this has been broken for a long time. > > Ask BDE for patches. :-) > > Yes from the boot blocks. > This is unsupported, sorry. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+4fF/Ukv4P6juNwoRAm3fAJ4gbniS+9FizTeN/ZOnA3qzE6+RCgCdGJRU l2HLinZUYn0QMMPmLDdChY4= =XEM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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