Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:48:02 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange geom interaction on 8.0? Message-ID: <20091130134802.GA37994@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <hf0eon$dou$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20091130123312.GA26031@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <hf0eon$dou$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:45:18PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > 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. You were right. I assumed setting a bit is just setting a bit and wanted to keep my stuff between 7.x and 8.x the same. But I added gpart and its /lib/geom/ bits and then did "gpart set -a active -i 1 ad0" and then reboot did work. Thanks. John -- John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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