From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 09:36:56 2004 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 0D08916A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:36:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9A143D48 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:36:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (orb_rules@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i799arti004108; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:36:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i799aq95004107; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:36:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:36:52 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Allan Fields Message-ID: <20040809093652.GE91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20040808211337.GB91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040809074732.GA3155@afields.ca> <20040809075228.GC91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040809081901.GB3155@afields.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8nsIa27JVQLqB7/C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040809081901.GB3155@afields.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slice weirdness 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: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 09:36:56 -0000 --8nsIa27JVQLqB7/C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:19:01AM -0400, Allan Fields wrote: > Something to try: once in a kernel, try either not using devfs or > manually creating device nodes and see if you can make it work with > ad1s2. Will do tomorrow. > > > i.e. if you were to go the sysinstall route and do a fresh install > > > on ad1, exhibit same behaviour? > >=20 > > Yes, it does. I didn't use sysinstall but 'make installworld' but either > > doing fdisk / disklabel by hand or by doing it using sysinstall, both > > methods stop at the same 'cannot find root' prompt when booting off the > > slice. A reboot into the old install later and my device entry is gone > > again. >=20 > You mean you can't see the new ad1s2 slice from a kernel booted off > ad0 either? Which would be consistent to the problem. Exactly, but as far as I can determine it only disappears if I boot from the new slice (which is why I suspect geometry bugs; I guess something in the bootblocks/loader is writing something to the disk which foobar's the new slice). > Try: > sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml Great, will try tomorrow (machine's at home and I won't be until late tonig= ht). --Stijn --=20 In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he? --8nsIa27JVQLqB7/C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBF0W0Y3r/tLQmfWcRAkh7AJ47kYslZSWl1Zam0b9xrDJ7krXMcACdF5tV laa9uJ3vVlXsQTEkO45wg1U= =HbC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8nsIa27JVQLqB7/C--