On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 04:00:46PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: > > Hi, > > This has been one of my laptops. It had three partitions > on it, the first one FreeBSD. > > > How does it crash? > > I have lilo installed. When I choose freebsd, I get the > normal freebsd loader: > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > > After that, I see very fast a message scrolling > over the screen, it turns black again, and > voila, the box has rebooted. > > I've killed the second box the same way. After restoring > boot0/boot1 I found that my disklables were nuked. Enjoy. > Um, so what do you use? lilo or boot0? :-)
Also, don't you think that it maybe a Linux part that's killing your FreeBSD disk labels? I don't believe loader(8) ever writes to this area of the disk, neither do boot0 and boot[12]. > > You mean without loader? From the boot blocks? If so, > > the support for this has been broken for a long time. > > Ask BDE for patches. :-) > > Yes from the boot blocks. > This is unsupported, sorry. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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