From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 09:33:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6982D16A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:33:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBEF43D5C for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 09:33:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j319X3Hu002099; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:33:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)j319X389002096; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:33:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lexi.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:33:03 -0500 (EST) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Emanuel Strobl In-Reply-To: <200504010940.38700@harrymail> Message-ID: <20050401042500.C52981@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <200504010940.38700@harrymail> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.494, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.10, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6-cur doesn't find ad0p3 with MBR and GPT on the same disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:33:09 -0000 On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > I upgraded a experimenting box from 5.4 to 6 with the result that 6 can't find > my GPT slices. > The disk additionally contains an MBR for booting, I'm on x86... > > Is there any trick to convince 6 to accept GPT slices after mounting root from > the same disk, traditonally from ad0s1a, so I can continue mounting /usr > a.s.o. which are on ad0p3? > > With the old 5.4 kernel it was no problem, but userland is already -current so > I cannot login anymore :( Just as a wild guess, this could possibly be related to the ata-mkIII commit. I don't have anything that can fix your problem under current, but here's how you can get your system back online: Boot from the 5.4-pre or 5.3-rel cd and do a binary upgrade on top of your -current installation. It will get you to the point where you can backup your data and decide what you want to do from there. This might be too little too late, but following the "safe upgrade steps" in src/UPDATING would have prevented this situation (You really should follow those, *especially* when bumping major versions of FreeBSD). Oh well, live and learn... :-) Regards, Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >