Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:18:36 +0800 (CST) From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL Message-ID: <09040315161311.79260@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <8583A3BA-2871-4DF4-9792-1031044A4A22@mac.com> References: <DED07257-A1C7-4504-9A9E-CAAC2A9737D6@mac.com> <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <gqt3um$f77$3@ger.gmane.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <DC771BC5-F356-4D81-9082-91C922CCBF38@mac.com> <0904020940371.36257@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <4CCDEFD6-830E-4C8F-B7A2-B7878F8842BE@mac.com> <0904021314574.37737@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <E6347C70-099B-494A-89E2-8CBDDAA36A85@mac.com> <09040309313414.76643@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <A821815A-63BE-4354-A8A9-6C1C8D277422@mac.com> <0904031327195.78401@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <8583A3BA-2871-4DF4-9792-1031044A4A22@mac.com>
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote: > >>> The real fix will be a bit more involved, because we should >>> avoid wiping out the boot menu entry on a write. But at least >>> with the patch you should be able to read the EBR. >> >> Much better. I can see extended partition nodes after booting with the >> patched kernel: > > I dug a bit deeper and it's not a boot manager menu entry, > but some signature particular to some tool. I'm not going > to worry about preserving that. > > Patch committed. Thanks! > *snip* >> => 0 192855600 ad0s3 EBR (92G) >> 0 16783200 1 !131 (8.0G) >> 16783200 50243760 266401 !11 (24G) >> 67026960 31251024 1063921 freebsd (15G) >> 98277984 94577616 1559969 freebsd (45G) >> >> The only downside is that I'll have to update /etc/fstab to boot correctly >> as /dev/ad0s7a is still missing. > > Ok, let's look at those sectors as well. Can you send the > output of: > dd if=/dev/ad0s7 of=dump.dd count=2 bs=512 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000200 57 45 56 82 00 00 00 00 61 6d 6e 65 73 69 61 63 |WEV.....amnesiac| 00000210 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000220 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 3f 00 00 00 |............?...| 00000230 10 00 00 00 1a 79 00 00 f0 03 00 00 11 da dc 01 |.....y..........| 00000240 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 0e 01 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 00000250 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000280 00 00 00 00 57 45 56 82 93 e0 08 00 00 20 00 00 |....WEV...... ..| 00000290 00 00 00 00 01 da dc 01 a0 40 1d 02 00 08 00 00 |.........@......| 000002a0 07 08 88 6f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |...o............| 000002b0 00 00 00 00 11 da dc 01 a0 40 1d 02 00 00 00 00 |.........@......| 000002c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000400 > BTW: Thanks for testing! Thanks for fixing! :) -- Cheers, Tai-hwa Liang
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