How to kill a 5.0R installation with 5.1R

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 04:00:46PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This has been one of my laptops. It had three partitions
> on it, the first one FreeBSD.
> 
> > How does it crash?
> 
> I have lilo installed. When I choose freebsd, I get the
> normal freebsd loader:
> 
> >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
> 
> After that, I see very fast a message scrolling
> over the screen, it turns black again, and
> voila, the box has rebooted.
> 
> I've killed the second box the same way. After restoring
> boot0/boot1 I found that my disklables were nuked. Enjoy.
> 
Um, so what do you use?  lilo or boot0?  :-)

Also, don't you think that it maybe a Linux part that's
killing your FreeBSD disk labels?  I don't believe
loader(8) ever writes to this area of the disk, neither
do boot0 and boot[12].

> > You mean without loader?  From the boot blocks?  If so,
> > the support for this has been broken for a long time.
> > Ask BDE for patches.  :-)
> 
> Yes from the boot blocks.
> 
This is unsupported, sorry.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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