> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a
> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. I
...
> When I rebooted, I found that it had overwritten the Master Boot
> Record (which is silly, since it knew there were two other systems on
> the disk), and it also rewrote the partition table: it changed the
> numbers of the partitions. This is particularly difficult for
> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name.
which is not much smarter...
> /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names
> changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn't have
> device nodes for these devices, I was unable to remount the root file
> system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition
> table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain.
hit a similar problem the other day, i think i managed to fix it
withouth the floppy by mounting again the root partition on /mnt
and there acting appropriately.
cheers
luigi
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