Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:13:26 +0000 From: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> To: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE --> partition gone Message-ID: <20091216121326.GA46703@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20091216.113300.74685382.sthaug@nethelp.no> References: <200912151720.37709.freebsd@insightbb.com> <20091216000803.GA39686@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org> <7BA0C6CC-A1D9-49C2-942D-D46C19E9B3CB@mac.com>
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Quoth sthaug@nethelp.no:
> > 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?
>From what's been said so far: If you have adXsY devices in 7, *and*
bsdlabel adX
finds a valid label (*note*: that is the whole disk, not the slice),
then you have conflicting BSD and MBR labels at the start of the disk
and you will have a problem in 8.
Ben
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