8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Sun Oct 18 01:25:11 UTC 2009
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Antony Mawer <lists at mawer.org> writes:
>> Am I correct in reading this as saying that -any- system which was
>> setup as dangerously dedicated will be unbootable under 8.0, and the
>> only way to fix is to basically repartition and reinstall...? If so
>> ... !!!
>
> You brought it upon yourself by setting it up that way in the first
> place. It's called *dangerously* dedicated for a reason.
I coined that expression back in 92 because it only worked because the
bsdlabel also included a dummy fdisk block, which pointed to itself.
>
> DES
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