From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 18 15:53:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB7B106566B for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:53:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnebdal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57008FC1D for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so3165889ewy.43 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:53:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=aBJJrtz1C3QWxjNESdnNAd5/T/1O9C/jzxmRbyDeFd4=; b=uJq35cBf29IuU5Ty55/IFLw35HV5Cw9D9dmGckaGMwhPRUiMeeMLuRO+IiEjoI2QE2 qO5nhXWeBtN56Fk2T8xNelAsft52hNF28WN2VdKxJijJaW+D+0M8jiTodPjr+A6p9pki V7Pcu8Z35EnQ4Lb0e3BBrFq5uPQ8/zRpCIgEE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=l83Ti2J3KhnDTFbBvH7eHDC6gXt5h1sFXm6j2LzJom9ujZ0tIfePEwuV+SQGnlDEap 4bjPau6VQX4elCsgwxc/0fIh+sJbaOT4AH1edDdYz6dGX2986xTbVnZlSoiL2QriSZ09 wG0L9cieyLebTER4kQhU5K+h8q/rfLKNTTHXc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.88.10 with SMTP id z10mr1336495wee.108.1255881185951; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:53:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091018162750.E82400@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <4ACE6D84.3000209@gmail.com> <4ACE833A.3030506@uffner.com> <4ACE9DFD.3010207@gmail.com> <200910131644.04358.john@baldwin.cx> <86ljja3ud5.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20091018162750.E82400@ury.york.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:53:05 +0200 Message-ID: From: Daniel Nebdal To: Gavin Atkinson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Antony Mawer , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , David Ehrmann , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:53:07 -0000 On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in older > versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode, and > partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse these > ambiguous disk labels differently. > > You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the old > partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than GEOM_PART), but > you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old modules > were planned to be removed at some point. > > Gavin Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that GEOM_PART would be happy with? That would open up the possibility of correcting the old label in-place (somehow)... -- Daniel Nebdal