From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 15:26:39 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 9C7431065706 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:26:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout018.mac.com (asmtpout018.mac.com [17.148.16.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038B98FC23 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:26:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from iphone-5.jnpr.net ([66.129.224.36]) by asmtp018.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KHF00KOSHK9XX70@asmtp018.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Tai-hwa Liang In-reply-to: <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:25:08 -0700 References: <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL 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: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:26:53 -0000 On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote: > that's too bad. Since my /home is sitting on the extended partition, > the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_ > removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the > kernel configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't > boot). That sounds like a bug, because logical partitions are supported. Can you enable GEOM_PART_BSD, GEOM_PART_EBR and GEOM_PART_MBR and tell me which GEOMs are available at the mount root prompt? -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com