8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN

[Johan Hendriks]

>> As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in
older
>> versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode,
and
>> partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse
these
>> ambiguous disk labels differently.
>>
>> You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the
old
>> partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than
GEOM_PART), but
>> you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old
modules
>> were planned to be removed at some point.
>>
>> Gavin

>Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that
>GEOM_PART would be happy with?
>That would open up the possibility of correcting the old label
>in-place (somehow)...

>-- 
>Daniel Nebdal

I did the following on my disk and it worked.
MAKE A BACKUP AND DON'T BLAME ME IF THINGS GO WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6 oseek=1 bs=512 count=1

/dev/ad6 was my disk 

Regards,
Johan Hendriks

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