Hi Garance,
This happened to me also. The solution was to run fsck on the older
versions, but tell it to use an alternate superblock. See man fsck. I
forget the details, but it worked for me.
Rob.
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> I'm playing around with installing a number of freebsd releases on
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> I have 4.6.2-release, 4.7-release, and 5.0-dp2-release on a single PC.
> After some bouncing between versions, and an occasional 'disklabel'
> command, I seem to have the partitions for 4.6.2 in an odd state.
> Both 4.7 and 5.0-dp2 have no problem mounting them, but if I
I'm playing around with installing a number of freebsd releases on
the same PC, and something came up which makes me a little uneasy.
I understand why I am seeing what I'm seeing, I'm just uneasy about
what it might mean for people who will pick up 5.0-release and start
testing it on their own mach