Force disk with old GPT label to be recognized as MBR one

2012-08-30 Thread Виталий Туровец
Hello there, people! I have a FreeBSD box with 9.1-RC3 i386 and an interesting HDD. It was patitioned with GPT and zfs some (long) time ago. After that the hdd has been completely repartitioned with MBR scheme and one single freebsd (165) partition and one slice there. It worked fine in 7.2, but

Re: Force disk with old GPT label to be recognized as MBR one

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote: So my question is: how do i force the system to ignore old corrupt GPT header on this hdd, or how do i remove the header, or is there any workaround possible? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1 bs=64k

Re: Force disk with old GPT label to be recognized as MBR one

2012-08-30 Thread Виталий Туровец
2012/8/30 Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote: So my question is: how do i force the system to ignore old corrupt GPT header on this hdd, or how do i remove the header, or is there any workaround possible? dd

Re: Force disk with old GPT label to be recognized as MBR one

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Виталий Туровец core...@corebug.net wrote: Well, i thought that my need to get files from hdd is easy enough to understand from my original message:) Извините, пожалуйста! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Force disk with old GPT label to be recognized as MBR one

2012-08-30 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, ??? ??? wrote: Hello there, people! I have a FreeBSD box with 9.1-RC3 i386 and an interesting HDD. It was patitioned with GPT and zfs some (long) time ago. After that the hdd has been completely repartitioned with MBR scheme and one single freebsd (165) partition

Re: Force disk with old GPT label to be recognized as MBR one

2012-08-30 Thread Виталий Туровец
2012/8/30 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com: On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, ??? ??? wrote: Hello there, people! I have a FreeBSD box with 9.1-RC3 i386 and an interesting HDD. It was patitioned with GPT and zfs some (long) time ago. After that the hdd has been completely repartitioned with MBR