Reinhard Haller wrote: > Hi, > > as far as I know my disk is not operating in dangerously dedicated mode. > Despite this I'm unable to upgrade to freebsd 8.0. Here is what the > gpart, mount, bsdlabel say. > [snip] > > I remember problems with the initial sysinstall because of geometry > problems -- the only way to get FreeBSD installed was to dedicate all of > the available space to FreeBSD.
The geometry warnings are mostly a cosmetic error and generally can be ignored. Especially the one in sysinstall. > I've found a suggested solution to repair the mbr/label problem with > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 count=1 oseek=1 > > and a warning not trying it on boot disks. > > Is there a better / safer solution around? > If there is I do not know of it. This is what I did when I had this problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg227610.html -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
