From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 6 06:11:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49BA1065673 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:11:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bu7cher@yandex.ru) Received: from forward1.mail.yandex.net (forward1.mail.yandex.net [77.88.46.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5388FC0A for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 06:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.mail.yandex.net (smtp2.mail.yandex.net [77.88.46.102]) by forward1.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 45DBF69E8910; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:10:58 +0300 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1291615858; bh=pztSEz6Nj4rKB1cwBPbLe4eswJ/ms5fSNjK0Z3nXCNg=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=SjxkpXSTvMMJ9XAtdYayrz0+JdY4+BrBZgpkRpB4ANwNvWmqoMbMAGCj4nfqSPnUu sxwjb/7rYQbBJ8zXuCAZuREnk7xhc+bn4yRKXgJ5zVzxlBB9NSN55oSl1GOYZvybfw ZXQsCTHVOA7ReIBmEXUr38rPib56hbf7b7g9GTyA= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ns.kirov.so-cdu.ru [77.72.136.145]) by smtp2.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTPSA id A87E1528085; Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:10:57 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <4CFC7E70.7000405@yandex.ru> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:10:56 +0300 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 (FreeBSD/20051231) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: perryh@pluto.rain.com References: <4cfc2a1e.rR/F7W1rhymw3F2n%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4cfc2a1e.rR/F7W1rhymw3F2n%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:11:34 +0000 Cc: demelier.david@gmail.com, joost@jodocus.org, xcllnt@mac.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount root during freebsd-update 7.0 -> 8.1 on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:11:00 -0000 On 06.12.2010 3:11, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> GEOM_PART (gpart) is a new GEOM partition class (slicer) and >> utility that rolls up support for many partitioning formats >> (MBR, BSD, GPT etc.) into a single code base. >> ... >> NOTE: Some old utilities like bsdlabel may not work if the kernel >> doesn't include GEOM_BSD and other old slicer classes. In other >> words, bsdlabel et al don't work with GEOM_PART. > > Does this mean that, in 8.1-RELEASE, bsdlabel/disklabel will not work > with the GENERIC kernel (which includes GEOM_PART_GPT and GEOM_LABEL, > but no other GEOM_ pieces AFAICT)? No, It doesn't. You can create partitions with fdisk/bsdlabel. They do write directly to device and this does initiate tasting. And GPART detects created partitions. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov