From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 20:17:57 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7063106566B for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheus@eternamente.info) Received: from phoenix.eternamente.info (phoenix.eternamente.info [109.169.62.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA768FC14 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by phoenix.eternamente.info (Postfix, from userid 80) id E5F051CC73; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:41:18 -0300 (BRT) Received: from 189.59.75.37 (proxying for 10.30.1.12) (SquirrelMail authenticated user matheus) by 109.169.62.232 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:41:18 -0300 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:41:18 -0300 From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" To: stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: problem: bsdlabel X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:17:58 -0000 hail, I partitioned the disk this way: fdisk da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=12161 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=12161 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 166 (0xa6),(OpenBSD) start 126, size 20964699 (10236 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 2/ sector 1; end: cyl 280/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 20971629, size 8379126 (4091 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 281/ head 108/ sector 1; end: cyl 802/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 29350755, size 41929650 (20473 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 803/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 340/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 71280405, size 124086060 (60588 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 341/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 896/ head 254/ sector 63 but when was time to label it, I did it wrong: bsdlabel -w da0 should have aimed slice 2 now, I just get da0 on /dev and sysinstall only sees da0 also. but fdisk sees it all (as showed above) how can I erase all label info from da0 (not da0s1 or da0s2). I tried to rewrite fdisk and all mbr info, but label info is still there. I'd like not to have to reinstall OpenBSD, if possible. thanks, matheus -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style