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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:16:42 +0100
From:      phk@freebsd.org
To:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. 
Message-ID:  <31798.1043738202@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:32:17 CST." <20030128053217.GA738@edgemaster.zombie.org> 

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In message <20030128053217.GA738@edgemaster.zombie.org>, Sean Kelly writes:

>edgemaster# disklabel -r ad1s1

Don't use '-r'  I will remove this as soon as it is no longer needed
for NO_GEOM compatibility.

>edgemaster# disklabel -B ad1s1
>partition c: partition extends past end of unit
>Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0!
>Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system ut=
>ilities
>partition f: partition extends past end of unit
>
>Note that if this is writing boot code, it is not working. When I select
>"F1 FreeBSD", I receive the message "Boot error". A keypress results in my
>system rebooting.

Can you please check with hexdump what is on the start of the partition ?

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