Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:25:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>, John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>, David Ehrmann <ehrmann@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN Message-ID: <4ADA6E79.2080401@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <86ljja3ud5.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <4ACE6D84.3000209@gmail.com> <4ACE833A.3030506@uffner.com> <4ACE9DFD.3010207@gmail.com> <200910131644.04358.john@baldwin.cx> <ea2d4a5b0910170126r78b2afcfib1547722bb3758b8@mail.gmail.com> <86ljja3ud5.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org> writes: >> Am I correct in reading this as saying that -any- system which was >> setup as dangerously dedicated will be unbootable under 8.0, and the >> only way to fix is to basically repartition and reinstall...? If so >> ... !!! > > You brought it upon yourself by setting it up that way in the first > place. It's called *dangerously* dedicated for a reason. I coined that expression back in 92 because it only worked because the bsdlabel also included a dummy fdisk block, which pointed to itself. > > DES
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