Re: 9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?

2013-01-30 Thread Gary Aitken
On 01/30/13 17:20, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: >> clean up (delete) the original partitions >> gpart destroy ada3 > > These two steps can be replaced with > gpart destroy -F ada3 I prefer doing it piecemeal to see what's happening when along the way. >> gp

Re: 9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks? [solved]

2013-01-30 Thread Gary Aitken
On 01/30/13 15:02, Robert Huff wrote: > > Gary Aitken writes: > >> I used gpart to set up a new disk, >> then went through a 9.1 install. >> Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, >> it wouldn't boot. > > While the "it wouldn't boot" is catastrophically

Re: 9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?

2013-01-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. What did it say? When doing the 9.1 install, I selected the disk and had to assign the partiti

9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?

2013-01-30 Thread Robert Huff
Gary Aitken writes: > I used gpart to set up a new disk, > then went through a 9.1 install. > Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, > it wouldn't boot. While the "it wouldn't boot" is catastrophically imprecise, I had what sounds like a similar probl

9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?

2013-01-30 Thread Gary Aitken
I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. When doing the 9.1 install, I selected the disk and had to assign the partitions to the various filesystems. AFIK, I did not otherwise modi