Re: install/38841: installer blow up FreeBSD's disklabel on other DOS partitions

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:32:11PM +0900, matsunaw%ja2.so-net.ne.jp@localhost 
wrote:
 > And disklabels of freebsd on DOS partition #3 (it might be same as
 > originally installed because of hand repair)::
 > 
 > ---
 > % uname -srm
 > FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE i386
 > % disklabel -r /dev/ad4s3
 > # /dev/ad4s3:
 > 8 partitions:
 > #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
 >   a: 16777216        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0 
 >   c: 97675200        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't 
 > edit
 >   e:  8388608 16777216    4.2BSD        0     0     0 

The chief cause of problems like this is accidentally mistyping
partition sizes or offsets. Then you get overlapping partitions and
things get overwritten.

Can you post the fdisk table and the other disklabels?

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost