Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:10:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days... Message-ID: <98921.1033485029@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:53:43 %2B1000." <20021001204643.H569-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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In message <20021001204643.H569-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <20021001202451.X479-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >> >On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > >> >> Provided nothing terminal pops up in the next 5 days, GEOM will >> >> become default in -current on Saturday 5th of october. >> >> >> >> Please test it now on _your_ configuration and tell me if it >> >> fails to work. >> > >> >It failed to understandard the partitions on a normal (sliced) boot >> >drive when I tested it a year ago, but I considered this a feature >> >since I don't plan to use it. It somehow worked on an (unsliced) >> >zip drive on the same machine. >> >> Thank you for the historical perspective :-) > >Oops, it was only a while ago (a month or less). GEOM had not been >committed a year ago. The IIRC, I was able to mount the root partition >using some magic like mounting it as ad0s2 instead of the correct device >ad0a. Can you send me the output from dd if=/dev/ad0 count=32 from this disk ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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