Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 17:15:35 +0200 From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: GEOM and NetBSD partitions/disklabels Message-ID: <20021013151535.GA66616@schweikhardt.net>
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Poul-Henning et al,
recently I've tried installing NetBSD on a new disk. I'm not sure if the
following is a coincidence (because it never worked before, even without
GEOM) or is due to GEOM issues. My -current is from Oct 12 and the kernel
derived from GENERIC, plus/minus devices/options to match my hardware.
NetBSD uses sysid 169 for their slice and a new style disklabel with 16
partitions. FreeBSD is unable to deal with that disklabel, it seems.
# fdisk da4
...
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 169 (0xa9),(NetBSD)
start 39841200, size 16771860 (8189 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1022/ head 254/ sector 63;
end: cyl 1022/ head 254/ sector 63
# disklabel da4s2
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
Am I trying something that is not supported? If yes, are there any
plans to support our brother BSD's disklabels?
Regards,
Jens
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