From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 21:26:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB9E106564A for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:26:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.andric.com (cl-327.ede-01.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:7b8:2ff:146::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10B88FC16 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:c47:e921:2c91:2d2b] (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:c47:e921:2c91:2d2b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DE0065C59; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:26:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C3CD9FA.5090801@andric.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:26:18 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8pre) Gecko/20100710 Lanikai/3.1.1pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <201007132109.o6DL9Nb2011189@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201007132109.o6DL9Nb2011189@fire.js.berklix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso 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: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:26:20 -0000 On 2010-07-13 23:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> Were those partitions 'dangerously dedicated' > > Yes probably, I can't be certain though, as recent FreeBSD fudges /aliases > ad0s1a to ad0a if s1 is active fdisk slice. IIRC, in FreeBSD before 8 you got both ad0s1a and ad0a in /dev, when you had DD partitions, but since GEOM_BSD was replaced by GEOM_PART_BSD this is no longer the case. As far as I have tried out, it is no longer possible to use sysinstall to actually install on a DD partition, neither with 8.1 nor with -current. Sysinstall simply does not allow you to directly label a 'raw' disk, you must make an MBR partition first. I usually just start a fixit shell from the DVD, run bsdlabel directly on the target device, newfs it, and unpack the distributions myself... > Yes definately. Most Probably on my 8.0-rel i386 laptop > Definately not on the laptop I was trying with 8.1-RC2. Did that latter laptop also show the same problem?