On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
One of the complications was getting old metadata off of the drive. After
trying a couple of 'dd' invocations:
# overwriting the first sector
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=512 count=1
# also tried overwriting the last sector
diskinfo ada0 | cut -
On 2012-11-20 21:10, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>
>> On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote:
>>> On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>>
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3
>> ...
"Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot"
>>
>>>
>>> Seems like it isn'
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Arthur Chance wrote:
On 11/21/12 05:11, Warren Block wrote:
gptboot looks for the first UFS partition. Maybe /boot/boot can be
modified to do that also.
It's a little more complicated than that Warren.
AIUI gptboot first looks (in partition order) for partitions with bo
On 11/21/12 05:11, Warren Block wrote:
gptboot looks for the first UFS partition. Maybe /boot/boot can be
modified to do that also.
It's a little more complicated than that Warren.
AIUI gptboot first looks (in partition order) for partitions with both
the bootme and bootonce attributes set.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote:
On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote:
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3
...
"Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot"
Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2
I previously used binary update t
On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote:
> On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>> freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3
...
>> "Not UFS" "No ada0" "No boot"
>
> Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2
>
I previously used binary update to migrate from 9.0 to 9.1, via:
freebsd-upd
On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in
> first bsdlabel.
>
> orsbackup# gpart show
> =>63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T)
>63 63 - free - (31k)
>
Hello,
I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first
bsdlabel.
orsbackup# gpart show
=>63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T)
390702
