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

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

The following reply was made to PR install/38841; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: matsunaw%ja2.so-net.ne.jp@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/38841: installer blow up FreeBSD's disklabel on other
        DOS partitions
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:54:25 +0000

 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