From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 15 11:17:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EA716A400; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:17:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@thunderstone.rink.nu) Received: from mx1.rink.nu (thunderstone.rink.nu [80.112.228.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45FB13C46E; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:17:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@thunderstone.rink.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB655D4C5D; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:13:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rink.nu Received: from mx1.rink.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (thunderstone.rink.nu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GwZ5by9PimAh; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:13:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from thunderstone.rink.nu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B17D4C5C; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:13:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rink@localhost) by thunderstone.rink.nu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l3FBDK7h098180; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:13:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rink) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:13:20 +0200 From: Rink Springer To: Ed Schouten Message-ID: <20070415111320.GA94418@rink.nu> References: <20070414115959.GN81821@hoeg.nl> <20070414160629.GA82214@rink.nu> <20070415070436.GQ81821@hoeg.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070415070436.GQ81821@hoeg.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: dwight@berendse.org, Rink Springer , Laurens Timmermans , FreeBSD GEOM Subject: Re: New GEOM module: geom_xboxhd X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:17:06 -0000 Hi Ed, On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:04:36AM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > > Have you tried what sysinstall(8) does when it sees such a layout? It'd > > be a shame if it nuked the partition table... :-) > > Not yet :-) A friend of mine, Dwight Berendse (added to CC), has just tried this using my soon-to-be-released new 6-STABLE FreeBSD/xbox CD. It worked nicely on a newly-prepared Xbox harddisk, but sysinstall(8) does not use the information. A quick inspection (Argh, I should study and not code, dammit...) yields that libdisk(3) actually ignores the XBOXHD partitions (refer to /usr/src/lib/libdisk/open_disk.c); and thus, sysinstall(8) will not see them. Therefore, even though the module works, I think we'd need some extra effort to make this behave nicely with sysinstall(8) :-/ Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But yet a far more terrible thing, to admit it." - Darth Traya