Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:37:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 Message-ID: <19990618183731.D2863@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199906180629.IAA16934@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:29:10AM %2B0200 References: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> <199906180629.IAA16934@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 8:29:10 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a >> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I > ... >> When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot >> Record (which is silly, since it knew there were two other systems on >> the disk), and it also rewrote the partition table: it changed the >> numbers of the partitions. This is particularly difficult for >> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. > > which is not much smarter... > >> /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names >> changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't have >> device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file >> system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition >> table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. > > hit a similar problem the other day, i think i managed to fix it > withouth the floppy by mounting again the root partition on /mnt > and there acting appropriately. Nice one. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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