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Date:      Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:50:30 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd question.. ;-)
Message-ID:  <199601061350.OAA13948@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <15199@nwpeople.demon.co.uk> from "Iain Baird" at Jan 4, 96 05:46:33 pm

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As Iain Baird wrote:
> 
> I recently tried
> 
> 	disklabel -B sd0
> 
> and I can no longer boot from that drive - the kernel starts up, but
> it can't find root.
> 
> The disk was "dangerously dedicated".  Should that matter?

Yes, that matters.  Read my other posting.

Sysinstall always assignes ``sliced'' disk entries for everything
except the root f/s.  Since disklabel -B destroys your fdisk table
(which libdisk has been creating fine, even in the `dangerously
dedicated' case), your slices are invalid.

Well, it should have found the root f/s however.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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