Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:47:40 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nick Jones <nick@freebsd.cx> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: geom_bsd Message-ID: <200406071147.40782.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040605145544.GA31231@dischord.org> References: <20040522162706.GA7409@dischord.org> <200405241032.18350.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040605145544.GA31231@dischord.org>
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On Saturday 05 June 2004 10:55 am, Nick Jones wrote: > 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. Well, GEOM should let you see the devices in /dev. Note that you will need to add 'GEOM_MBR' to your kernel (either as an option or kldload geom_mbr.ko) so that GEOM will see the MBR that the label lives inside of. That should give you the /dev/ad0s1a, etc. devices. However, I'm not sure if you will be able to mount the filesystems due to sizeof(long) differences. Since the endianness is the same you might be able to, though. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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