From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 18 2: 8: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F54914FF9 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 02:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA08946; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:37:51 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA03216; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:37:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:37:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beware of UnixWare 7 Message-ID: <19990618183731.D2863@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990618181324.A2863@freebie.lemis.com> <199906180629.IAA16934@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199906180629.IAA16934@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:29:10AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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