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	Death By NetBSD by Frank Mitchell-2 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hi: Recently I installed NetBSD, then found FreeBSD wouldn't start. I had this problem before and believed it was due to a bug in the NetBSD Boot Selector, which I avoided installing. But this time it looked as if my FreeBSD Partition got wiped completely. Re-trying, it looked like NetBSD spotted the FreeBSD FFSv2 Partition and decided to assign it a Mount Point of "/". This is listed if you look closely under "NetBSD Disklabel Partitions... last chance to change". I edited that Mount Point away and afterwards my (reinstalled) FreeBSD was still present. Hey, I'm glad I keep my Data on a separate Partition. Am I the only guy who didn't know about this? Yours Truly: Frank Mitchell _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@..."
	Re: Death By NetBSD by Nikola Lecic-3 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 [ removed freebsd-hackers@... from Cc: ] On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:17:15 +0100 Frank Mitchell <mitchell@...> wrote: > Hi: > > Recently I installed NetBSD, then found FreeBSD wouldn't start. I had > this problem before and believed it was due to a bug in the NetBSD > Boot Selector, which I avoided installing. But this time it looked as > if my FreeBSD Partition got wiped completely. > > Re-trying, it looked like NetBSD spotted the FreeBSD FFSv2 Partition > and decided to assign it a Mount Point of "/". This is listed if you > look closely under "NetBSD Disklabel Partitions... last chance to > change". I edited that Mount Point away and afterwards my > (reinstalled) FreeBSD was still present. > > Hey, I'm glad I keep my Data on a separate Partition. Am I the only > guy who didn't know about this? No, there was once a similar report on questions@. Please follow this thread (it's a happy ending story): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-December/164901.html Good luck :-) - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkqiuEkACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZhacgQAyeDq7UZAiTB0PWOsxS45EF3D xnR0Aj8MkVWt6vVlApQ1JEDGF3es1x5O29iEU/ywDg6/cDux+7dzpkzOBjGueGsF 0valvXzwTHG6jwntXZTzvgh7HoaY8QK/Q9WoeJr0O/J1FJEP1sLTX4YB6C+z3HV4 k62EMlLd/Ib5GkYgyho= =31le -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@..."
	Re: Death By NetBSD by Byung-Hee HWANG :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message At Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:17:15 +0100, Frank Mitchell wrote: > > Hi: > > Recently I installed NetBSD, then found FreeBSD wouldn't start. I had this > problem before and believed it was due to a bug in the NetBSD Boot Selector, > which I avoided installing. But this time it looked as if my FreeBSD > Partition got wiped completely. > > Re-trying, it looked like NetBSD spotted the FreeBSD FFSv2 Partition and > decided to assign it a Mount Point of "/". This is listed if you look > closely under "NetBSD Disklabel Partitions... last chance to change". I > edited that Mount Point away and afterwards my (reinstalled) FreeBSD was > still present. > > Hey, I'm glad I keep my Data on a separate Partition. Am I the only guy who > didn't know about this? Welcome! Personally i don't use dual booting. All operating system is in primary master. Whenever special operating system is needed, i changed that physicially hand by hand. It is safe for me, anyway ..;; Sincerely, -- Byung-Hee HWANG ∑ WWW: http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@..."
	Re: Death By NetBSD by mike5 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On September 5, 2009 06:21:21 pm 牛粥 wrote: > At Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:17:15 +0100, > > Frank Mitchell wrote: > > Hi: > > > > Recently I installed NetBSD, then found FreeBSD wouldn't start. I had > > this problem before and believed it was due to a bug in the NetBSD Boot > > Selector, which I avoided installing. But this time it looked as if my > > FreeBSD Partition got wiped completely. > > > > Re-trying, it looked like NetBSD spotted the FreeBSD FFSv2 Partition and > > decided to assign it a Mount Point of "/". This is listed if you look > > closely under "NetBSD Disklabel Partitions... last chance to change". I > > edited that Mount Point away and afterwards my (reinstalled) FreeBSD was > > still present. > > > > Hey, I'm glad I keep my Data on a separate Partition. Am I the only guy > > who didn't know about this? > > Welcome! > > Personally i don't use dual booting. All operating system is in > primary master. Whenever special operating system is needed, i changed > that physicially hand by hand. It is safe for me, anyway ..;; > > Sincerely, Agreed. I much prefer disk caddies for a desktop machine. I had a bad day a few years ago when I wiped out an entire dual-boot FreeBSD/Windows disk with a careless use of fdisk. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@..."
	Re: Death By NetBSD by Jason Lenthe :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 17:17 +0100, Frank Mitchell wrote: > Recently I installed NetBSD, then found FreeBSD wouldn't start. I had this > problem before and believed it was due to a bug in the NetBSD Boot Selector, > which I avoided installing. But this time it looked as if my FreeBSD > Partition got wiped completely. > > Re-trying, it looked like NetBSD spotted the FreeBSD FFSv2 Partition and > decided to assign it a Mount Point of "/". This is listed if you look > closely under "NetBSD Disklabel Partitions... last chance to change". I > edited that Mount Point away and afterwards my (reinstalled) FreeBSD was > still present. That similar to a problem I ran into a while back after installing NetBSD for dual booting on a disk that already had FreeBSD installed. I figured out that the NetBSD disklabel command labels all slices on the disk, even those your aren't installing NetBSD into. Fortunately, I saved off my FreeBSD bsdlabel output so restoring my partition layout was easy once I figured out the situation. And I didn't have to restore any data either. Sincerely, Jason Lenthe _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@... mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@..."