From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 19 11:06:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E59F10656A8 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:06:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Johan@double-l.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEC68FC1D for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from w2003s01.double-l.local (double-l.xs4all.nl [80.126.205.144]) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n9JB6UP7015472; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:06:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Johan@double-l.nl) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:06:28 +0200 Message-ID: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA57081@w2003s01.double-l.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN Thread-Index: AcpQDNU7cnMNwav1RbO1zYH1Fm6icwAnvYDw From: "Johan Hendriks" To: "Daniel Nebdal" X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:06:32 -0000 >> As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in older >> versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode, and >> partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse these >> ambiguous disk labels differently. >> >> You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the old >> partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than GEOM_PART), but >> you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old modules >> were planned to be removed at some point. >> >> Gavin >Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that >GEOM_PART would be happy with? >That would open up the possibility of correcting the old label >in-place (somehow)... >--=20 >Daniel Nebdal I did the following on my disk and it worked. MAKE A BACKUP AND DON'T BLAME ME IF THINGS GO WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad6 oseek=3D1 bs=3D512 count=3D1 /dev/ad6 was my disk=20 Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com=20 Version: 8.5.422 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2444 - Release Date: 10/18/09 09:04:00