Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:45:18 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange geom interaction on 8.0? Message-ID: <hf0eon$dou$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20091130123312.GA26031@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <20091130123312.GA26031@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
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John Hay wrote: > Hi, > > On our Avila (arm) boxes we use a compact flash with 2 FreeBSD partitions > made with fdisk. When we upgrade, we prepare the non active partition, > change the active bit and reboot into the new partition. This worked well > on FreeBSD 7.2-stable. But on 8.0 it does not want to work. I get > something like this: > > ############################# > agter:~ # fdisk -s ad0 > /dev/ad0: 1966 cyl 16 hd 63 sec > Part Start Size Type Flags > 1: 63 989793 0xa5 0x80 > 2: 990864 990864 0xa5 0x00 > agter:~ # echo "a 2" | fdisk -f - ad0 > ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* > fdisk: Class not found > agter:~ # fdisk -s ad0 > /dev/ad0: 1966 cyl 16 hd 63 sec > Part Start Size Type Flags > 1: 63 989793 0xa5 0x00 > 2: 990864 990864 0xa5 0x80 > agter:~ # reboot > /sbin/reboot: Device not configured. > agter:~ # > ############################# > > Basically it looks like non of the commands that has not been executed > want to execute. Just changing the active bit back does not help. > > Can it be some interaction of the geom modules that are now standard > in 8.0? > > "kldstat -v | grep g_part" show these two: > 74 g_part_mbr > 73 g_part_bsd Basically, fdisk and disklabel should not be used on 8.x anymore, try using gpart instead.
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