Re: bsdlabel question

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:16:33 +0200
In message <3EB68B7F.7050801_at_hotmail.com>, walt writes:


>> Did you get a warning when you booted ?
>
>With geom_bsd.c ver 1.59 I now see this:
>
>WARNING: Expected rawoffset 139926150, found 0
>
>I remember relocating the FBSD partition on the disk using
>a third-party partitioning utility which worked just fine
>after I re-installed the FBSD boot record.

That is _exactly_ why embedding the disk-absolute offsets in
the BSD label are bad.

Let me think a bit, maybe I can find a better way to deal with this
sort of situation.

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Received on Mon May 05 2003 - 06:16:36 UTC

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