Quoth sth...@nethelp.no: > > If you installed "dangerously dedicated" and ended up > > with ad0s1a (note the "s1"), then you have an invalid > > partitioning and FreeBSD 8.x will not give you what > > you've been getting on FreeBSD 7.x. Most of the time > > you only need to wipe out the second sector on the > > disk to clean it up and have FreeBSD 8.x also give > > you ad0s1a. > > So what's an easy recipe we can run on 7.x hosts to see whether we > would have problems with 8.x?
>From what's been said so far: If you have adXsY devices in 7, *and* bsdlabel adX finds a valid label (*note*: that is the whole disk, not the slice), then you have conflicting BSD and MBR labels at the start of the disk and you will have a problem in 8. Ben _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"