Death By NetBSD

[Nikola Lečić]

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On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:17:15 +0100
Frank Mitchell <mitchell at wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> 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 at . Please follow this
thread (it's a happy ending story):

  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-December/164901.html

Good luck :-)
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Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић
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