sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64 FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Dimitry Andric <dimitry at andric.com> 
> Date:		Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:01:41 +0200 
> Message-id:	<4C3CAA05.6080800 at 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
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