Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:19:26 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklablel/gpart [Was: AMD 780G chipset major issues 3/3 (btx)] Message-ID: <200904161219.30639.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <49E74B6B.50100@icyb.net.ua> References: <83e5fb980904061402q73940f8at4ec4b8f821354320@mail.gmail.com> <83e5fb980904151722p17d4210dqeca1c137683eebb0@mail.gmail.com> <49E74B6B.50100@icyb.net.ua>
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On Thursday 16 April 2009 11:14 am, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 16/04/2009 03:22 Diego Depaoli said the following: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> After reboot I get BTX halted. > >>> Perhaps bsdlabel -B works only upon a slice with 0X80 flag set? > >>> Otherwise I don't know... > >> > >> It only works when there is no error. ;-) It seems you have to > >> fix the label first. > > > > Starting from this... > > can be done without loosing data? > > You can try to do it with gpart, maybe it will like slices of your > disks better :) > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2009-April/003440.h >tml > > E.g.: gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot ad10s1 > > Be warned that gpart says back something like "partition has boot > code" and it's not terribly clear what is actually meant here: "it > (already) has boot code, so I am not doing anything" or "I did my > job and it (now) has boot code". It is the latter :-) Well, I recalculated everything with help of trusty bc(1). ;-) Seriously, I must say you should back it up first if the data is important. When I got my current laptop, I had to reinstall all OSes several times in different orders to make all OS loaders agree with an MBR. :-( Jung-uk Kim
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