From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 5 07:56:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA23A16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:56:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D67E843D1F for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:56:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@freebsd.cx) Received: from unknown (HELO cordelia.tachief.com) (freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org@217.44.241.152 with poptime) by smtp802.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Jun 2004 14:55:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 9648 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jun 2004 14:55:45 -0000 Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 15:55:45 +0100 From: Nick Jones To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20040605145544.GA31231@dischord.org> References: <20040522162706.GA7409@dischord.org> <200405241032.18350.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405241032.18350.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: OpenBSD/3.5 (i386) X-Uptime: 3:50PM up 19 days, 20:17, 3 users, load averages: 3.04, 2.32, 1.93 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: geom_bsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:56:01 -0000 John Baldwin (jhb@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:27 pm, Nick Jones wrote: > > I'm having a problem when loading geom_bsd on an Alpha XPS1000 machine and > > subsequently attempting to access a particular IDE drive, which is as > > follows: > > If you are adding a new label do this: > sudo bsdlabel /dev/ad0 auto Sorry, I just realised how badly worded my original post was. The drive in question is pulled from an x86 install of FreeBSD and has data on it I'd like to access in this Alpha box, therefore I don't want to do anything destructive. >From what I understand this should now be possible thanks to GEOM, but there again I could be wrong. -- --Nick