On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > While installing 8.0-RC2 via a netbooted 7.0-RELEASE: > > # fdisk -I -B ad0 > # bsdlabel -rw ad0 auto > # bsdlabel -e ad0 > [hmm, that wasn't right!] > # fdisk -I -B ad0 > # bsdlabel -rw ad0s1 auto > # bsdlabel -e ad0s1 > # bsdlabel -B ad0s1a > # newfs -U -L root ad0s1a > # mount /dev/ufs/root /mnt > [install to /mnt] > # reboot > > The machine won't boot, even though you have a valid partition table on > ad0 that points to a valid bsdlabel in ad0s1. No, you don't have a valid partition table on ad0, because you didn't remove the BSD disklabel in sector 2 on ad0. You just overwrote sector 1 on ad0 and created a new BSD disklabel in sector 64. You still have a dangerously dedicated disk without partitions, by virtue of the BSD label in sector 2. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Thu Nov 12 2009 - 00:00:39 UTC
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