4.10-RELEASE install badness

[Doug White]

On Fri, 28 May 2004, J Lachlan Kanaley wrote:

> Hello all, not quite sure if this belongs on this list, so let me
> know if it doesn't!
>
> I downloaded 4.10-RELEASE last night and had a go at installing it
> this morning.  I wanted to put it onto the same disk as
> 5.2.1-RELEASE and repartitioned the drive
> ad1s1 - 5.2.1
> ad1s2 - 4.10
> ad1s3 - FreeBSD but nothing on it
> ad1s4 - ufs filesystem

Interesting layout :)

> however disklabel in the install program got it wrong and (i think)
> swapped the disklabels for the first and second slices around.  The
> result was that 4.10 booted up fine, but appeared to have the wrong
> disklabel (the ones that should have been on slice 1) and I lost my
> 5.2.1 install (could not boot and could not mount the drives, with
> mount complaining of an invalid super block and the bootloader
> complaining about no ufs filesystem).

I wonder if this was more due to installing a non-UFS2 loader that thought
it should be looking at the UFS2 (5.2) partition.  5.x loaders will work
fine for 4.x systems, but not the other way around.

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