Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:43:15 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to confuse geom_part_mbr Message-ID: <86d43omsb0.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <94D5F246-3413-4256-A0FB-6DF2D3BFE9D0@mac.com> (Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:00:17 -0800") References: <86tyx0mxjw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <94D5F246-3413-4256-A0FB-6DF2D3BFE9D0@mac.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > The machine won't boot, even though you have a valid partition table > > on ad0 that points to a valid bsdlabel in ad0s1. > No, you don't have a valid partition table on ad0, because > you didn't remove the BSD disklabel in sector 2 on ad0. Yes, I do have a valid partition table. It is exactly byte-by-byte identical to the one I get after I zero sector two and re-run fdisk. The fact that there is unwanted data in sector 2 does *not* make it any less valid. What's more, this could have easily been avoided if geom_whatever gave the partition table precedence over the label it found in sector 2. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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