From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 1 8:11: 3 2002 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 5F32837B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8D043E3B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g91FAT0U098922; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:10:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:53:43 +1000." <20021001204643.H569-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:10:29 +0200 Message-ID: <98921.1033485029@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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