> > > 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 FreeBSD 8.x also give > > > you ad0s1a. > > > > 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 slice), > then you have conflicting BSD and MBR labels at the start of the disk > and you will have a problem in 8.
So presumably if I have root on ad4s1a today, and bsdlabel shows # bsdlabel ad4 bsdlabel: /dev/ad4: no valid label found then I am ready for FreeBSD 8.x? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"