>> As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in older >> versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode, and >> partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse these >> ambiguous disk labels differently. >> >> You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the old >> partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than GEOM_PART), but >> you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old modules >> were planned to be removed at some point. >> >> Gavin >Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that >GEOM_PART would be happy with? >That would open up the possibility of correcting the old label >in-place (somehow)... >-- >Daniel Nebdal I did the following on my disk and it worked. MAKE A BACKUP AND DON'T BLAME ME IF THINGS GO WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6 oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 /dev/ad6 was my disk Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.422 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2444 - Release Date: 10/18/09 09:04:00Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 09:06:32 UTC
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