Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:59:26 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL Message-ID: <8583A3BA-2871-4DF4-9792-1031044A4A22@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <0904031327195.78401@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> References: <DED07257-A1C7-4504-9A9E-CAAC2A9737D6@mac.com> <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <gqt3um$f77$3@ger.gmane.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <DC771BC5-F356-4D81-9082-91C922CCBF38@mac.com> <0904020940371.36257@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <4CCDEFD6-830E-4C8F-B7A2-B7878F8842BE@mac.com> <0904021314574.37737@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <E6347C70-099B-494A-89E2-8CBDDAA36A85@mac.com> <09040309313414.76643@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <A821815A-63BE-4354-A8A9-6C1C8D277422@mac.com> <0904031327195.78401@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
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On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote: >> The real fix will be a bit more involved, because we should >> avoid wiping out the boot menu entry on a write. But at least >> with the patch you should be able to read the EBR. > > Much better. I can see extended partition nodes after booting with > the > patched kernel: I dug a bit deeper and it's not a boot manager menu entry, but some signature particular to some tool. I'm not going to worry about preserving that. Patch committed. *snip* > => 0 192855600 ad0s3 EBR (92G) > 0 16783200 1 !131 (8.0G) > 16783200 50243760 266401 !11 (24G) > 67026960 31251024 1063921 freebsd (15G) > 98277984 94577616 1559969 freebsd (45G) > > The only downside is that I'll have to update /etc/fstab to boot > correctly > as /dev/ad0s7a is still missing. Ok, let's look at those sectors as well. Can you send the output of: dd if=/dev/ad0s7 of=dump.dd count=2 bs=512 BTW: Thanks for testing! -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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