sysistall bsdlabel failure with amd64
FreeBSD-8.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Tue Jul 13 21:10:24 UTC 2010
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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