On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > >> On 2009-01-15 20:35, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>> You need a boot sector for the BIOS to jump into, but >>> it doesn't have to be a MBR with slices. That's why >>> a DD has something that looks an awful lot like a MBR >>> in the first sector. It could very well be boot sector >>> of an FAT* file system. >> >> I can confirm, that wiping out the partition table (but not the boot >> code), using "bsdlabel -B /dev/ad0s1", makes "s1" disappear. Subsequent >> boots can then be done from /dev/ad0a, and this works both for "old" >> kernels, e.g. from before r186240 and after. > > Thanks *very* much for testing! It's important that we > get the details right, so that we can consider adding > code to help in the migration and fix whatever is broken. How did so many people (myself included) end up with invalid disk labels? Sysinstall?Received on Thu Jan 15 2009 - 21:43:01 UTC
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