From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 21 12:16:48 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B1637B405; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:16:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fALKGbM51992; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1F13811; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:16:37 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011121201637.8A1F13811@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > On 21-Nov-01 Peter Wemm wrote: > > peter 2001/11/21 00:31:45 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c > > Log: > > Recognize the "fixed" geometry in boot1 so that DD disks are not > > interpreted as real fdisk tables (and fail). > > Eh? Did you not kill DD mode in userland? Not quite. The problem was that the alternate boot1 layout was not recognized by subr_diskmbr.c as "dangerous" (and therefore ignored) so it tried to interpret it and failed messily. disklabel -r -w ad1 auto .. was failing apparently. The whole DD thing still needs to be resolved. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message