On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 8:29:10 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a >> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I > ... >> When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot >> Record (which is silly, since it knew there were two other systems on >> the disk), and it also rewrote the partition table: it changed the >> numbers of the partitions. This is particularly difficult for >> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. > > which is not much smarter... > >> /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names >> changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't have >> device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file >> system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition >> table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. > > hit a similar problem the other day, i think i managed to fix it > withouth the floppy by mounting again the root partition on /mnt > and there acting appropriately.
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