Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Marcel, On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:46:27 -0800, Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com wrote: Yes, if you have ad2a and not ad2s1a, then you have a proper dangerously dedicated disk and FreeBSD 8.x will work correctly with your disk. If you installed dangerously dedicated and ended up with

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 16/12/2009 11:28 Marian Hettwer said the following: Hej Marcel, On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:46:27 -0800, Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com wrote: Yes, if you have ad2a and not ad2s1a, then you have a proper dangerously dedicated disk and FreeBSD 8.x will work correctly with your disk. If

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread sthaug
If you installed dangerously dedicated and ended up with ad0s1a (note the s1), then you have an invalid partitioning and FreeBSD 8.x will not give you what you've been getting on FreeBSD 7.x. Most of the time you only need to wipe out the second sector on the disk to clean it up and have

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hej Ho, On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:55:38 +0200, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 16/12/2009 11:28 Marian Hettwer said the following: Hej Marcel, On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:46:27 -0800, Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com wrote: Yes, if you have ad2a and not ad2s1a, then you have a proper

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth sth...@nethelp.no: If you installed dangerously dedicated and ended up with ad0s1a (note the s1), then you have an invalid partitioning and FreeBSD 8.x will not give you what you've been getting on FreeBSD 7.x. Most of the time you only need to wipe out the second sector on the

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread sthaug
If you installed dangerously dedicated and ended up with ad0s1a (note the s1), then you have an invalid partitioning and FreeBSD 8.x will not give you what you've been getting on FreeBSD 7.x. Most of the time you only need to wipe out the second sector on the disk to clean it up

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Jeff Blank
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:27:15PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: but, hm, whats that? r...@talisker:/root# fsck /dev/ad8s1a fsck: Could not determine filesystem type If you don't have an entry for /dev/ad8s1a in your fstab, you need to specify the filesystem type with -t. Jeff

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: gee, thanks! That worked. r...@talisker:/root# ls /dev/ad8* /dev/ad8/dev/ad8s1 /dev/ad8s1a r...@talisker:/root# mount /dev/ad8s1a /BACKUP/ r...@talisker:/root# umount /BACKUP/ but, hm, whats that? r...@talisker:/root# fsck

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:33 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: If you installed dangerously dedicated and ended up with ad0s1a (note the s1), then you have an invalid partitioning and FreeBSD 8.x will not give you what you've been getting on FreeBSD 7.x. Most of the time you only need to wipe out

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com: On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: gee, thanks! That worked. r...@talisker:/root# ls /dev/ad8* /dev/ad8/dev/ad8s1 /dev/ad8s1a r...@talisker:/root# mount /dev/ad8s1a /BACKUP/ r...@talisker:/root# umount /BACKUP/

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-16 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth sth...@nethelp.no: So what's an easy recipe we can run on 7.x hosts to see whether we would have problems with 8.x? From what's been said so far: If you have adXsY devices in 7, *and* bsdlabel adX finds a valid label (*note*: that is the whole disk, not the

update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Marian Hettwer
Hi Folks, today I did an update from 7.2-RELEASE-p4 to 8.0-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything went smooth, apart from the fact that I can't mount my second disk. It's all a bit puzzling... Here are the facts: [r...@talisker ~]# cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpointFStype

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 04:42:06 pm Marian Hettwer wrote: Hi Folks, today I did an update from 7.2-RELEASE-p4 to 8.0-RELEASE using freebsd-update. Everything went smooth, apart from the fact that I can't mount my second disk. It's all a bit puzzling... Here are the facts:

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports dangerously dedicated disks. This is not true. The problem is that sysinstall creates an invalid dangerously dedicated disk, as demonstrated by doing: # fdisk ad8 (shows FreeBSD slice

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com: On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports dangerously dedicated disks. This is not true. The problem is that sysinstall creates an invalid dangerously dedicated disk, as demonstrated by doing: # fdisk

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Xin LI
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow b...@morrow.me.uk wrote: Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com: On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports dangerously dedicated disks. This is not true. The problem is that sysinstall creates an invalid

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com: On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports dangerously dedicated disks. This is not true. The problem is that sysinstall creates an invalid dangerously

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth Xin LI delp...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow b...@morrow.me.uk wrote: Are you able to clarify exactly what is no longer working in 8? I've read things here and there about dangerously dedicated disks no longer being supported, but no detail about what

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com: On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: Quoth Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com: On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports dangerously dedicated disks. This is not true. The problem is that

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Xin LI wrote: My $0.02: what about labelling them, say, tunefs -L on UFS partitions, and glabel for swap, then change corresponding entry in fstab.  Say:  - Start into single user  - tunefs -L root /  - reboot into single user --- reboot required after tuning /  -