Defining a new slice

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> "Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com> writes:
> > If the administrator uses /stand/sysinstall to replace a Windows 
> > partition that exists in front of the FreeBSD system partition with a 
> > UFS partition, will this rename the system partition and break the 
> > bootup process?
> Yes.

Umm, or rather: in 5.x it shouldn't, in 4.x it may.  GEOM (used in 5.x
but not in 4.x) killed off the "compatibility slice" which would lead
to this problem.

DES
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