On 12/3/09 4:34 PM, "David Rawling" <d...@pdconsec.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org on behalf of Tom Worster >> Sent: Fri 4/12/2009 8:19 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: my slices are gone >> >> using sysinstall on the 8.0-RELEASE ISO Disk 1, i looked at the status of >> the disks and found some alarming things: >> >> the label editor shows no labels on either disk. that seems pretty bad. >> >> and the slice editor says: >> >> Disk slicing warning: >> chunk 'ad6p1' [40..409639] does not start on a track boundary >> chunk 'ad6p2' [409640..1464784583] does not start on a track boundary >> >> which seems pretty bad in two different ways. >> >> would anyone disagree that freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade has left >> this system unusable and the only next step is reformat at reinstall (that >> old windows routine)? > > I'm barely starting off in the FreeBSD world after a long hiatus, but might > you perchance have been using Dangerously Dedicated disks? It doesn't seem to > match the disk layout but you never know. > > Lots of people have had trouble since DD mode disappeared (it took me ages to > figure out why my VMs with DD mode always broke). i don't really see why this should have been working and then stop working on a freebsd-update. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"