From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 27 23:17: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E211D37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:17:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB13043F85 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0S7GgQl031799; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:16:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Sean Kelly Cc: Bruce Evans , Peter Wemm , Kris Kennaway , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:32:17 CST." <20030128053217.GA738@edgemaster.zombie.org> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:16:42 +0100 Message-ID: <31798.1043738202@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message