Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso Message-ID: <4C3CAA05.6080800@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <201007131701.o6DH1JxF009213@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201007131701.o6DH1JxF009213@fire.js.berklix.net>
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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' and created by an older (pre-8.x) sysinstall?
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