Re: 4.10-RELEASE install badness

From: Doug White (dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com)
Date: 05/28/04

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    Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:07:33 -0700 (PDT)
To: J Lachlan Kanaley <kanaley@student.usyd.edu.au>

    On Fri, 28 May 2004, J Lachlan Kanaley wrote:

    > Hello all, not quite sure if this belongs on this list, so let me
    > know if it doesn't!
    >
    > I downloaded 4.10-RELEASE last night and had a go at installing it
    > this morning. I wanted to put it onto the same disk as
    > 5.2.1-RELEASE and repartitioned the drive
    > ad1s1 - 5.2.1
    > ad1s2 - 4.10
    > ad1s3 - FreeBSD but nothing on it
    > ad1s4 - ufs filesystem

    Interesting layout :)

    > however disklabel in the install program got it wrong and (i think)
    > swapped the disklabels for the first and second slices around. The
    > result was that 4.10 booted up fine, but appeared to have the wrong
    > disklabel (the ones that should have been on slice 1) and I lost my
    > 5.2.1 install (could not boot and could not mount the drives, with
    > mount complaining of an invalid super block and the bootloader
    > complaining about no ufs filesystem).

    I wonder if this was more due to installing a non-UFS2 loader that thought
    it should be looking at the UFS2 (5.2) partition. 5.x loaders will work
    fine for 4.x systems, but not the other way around. 

    -- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
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