Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:09:23 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso Message-ID: <201007132109.o6DL9Nb2011189@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 %2B0200." <4C3CAA05.6080800@andric.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200 > Message-id: <4C3CAA05.6080800@andric.com> Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2010-07-13 19:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso > > sysinstall failed to correctly repartition a previously partitioned disc. > > fdisk however correctly wrote the new slices to the disk, > > but sysinstall did not pick up the new slices, so we had to enter fixit > > & overwrite beginning of disk with > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1024 count=100 > > PS sysinstall saw /dev/ad0 & /dev/ad0a > > Were those partitions 'dangerously dedicated' Yes probably, I can't be certain though, as recent FreeBSD fudges /aliases ad0s1a to ad0a if s1 is active fdisk slice. > and created by an older > (pre-8.x) sysinstall? Yes definately. Most Probably on my 8.0-rel i386 laptop Definately not on the laptop I was trying with 8.1-RC2. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text. Not HTML, Not quoted-printable, Not Base64.
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