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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:33:00 +0100 (CET)
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        xcllnt@mac.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone
Message-ID:  <20091216.113300.74685382.sthaug@nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: <7BA0C6CC-A1D9-49C2-942D-D46C19E9B3CB@mac.com>
References:  <200912151720.37709.freebsd@insightbb.com> <20091216000803.GA39686@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> <7BA0C6CC-A1D9-49C2-942D-D46C19E9B3CB@mac.com>

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> 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?

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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