Hi, Reference: > From: Dimitry Andric <dimi...@andric.com> > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200 > Message-id: <4c3caa05.6080...@andric.com>
Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2010-07-13 19:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso > > sysinstall failed to correctly repartition a previously partitioned disc. > > fdisk however correctly wrote the new slices to the disk, > > but sysinstall did not pick up the new slices, so we had to enter fixit > > & overwrite beginning of disk with > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1024 count=100 > > PS sysinstall saw /dev/ad0 & /dev/ad0a > > Were those partitions 'dangerously dedicated' Yes probably, I can't be certain though, as recent FreeBSD fudges /aliases ad0s1a to ad0a if s1 is active fdisk slice. > and created by an older > (pre-8.x) sysinstall? Yes definately. Most Probably on my 8.0-rel i386 laptop Definately not on the laptop I was trying with 8.1-RC2. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text. Not HTML, Not quoted-printable, Not Base64. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
