Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:19:01 -0400 From: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slice weirdness Message-ID: <20040809081901.GB3155@afields.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040809075228.GC91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20040808211337.GB91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20040809074732.GA3155@afields.ca> <20040809075228.GC91609@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:47:32AM -0400, Allan Fields wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:13:37PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > I've had some partition/slice issues in the past w/ install CD and > > missing device entries with non-standard slice (anything except s1 > > entry), can't recall details, but running sysinstall w/ newfs > > flag to N creates appropriate entries. Else I've found suitable > > device entries elsewhere or make them temporarily with mknod. > > Maybe this was only an issue in -stable. >=20 > I don't know, but obviously I can't mknod / do something about it when > the kernel has just been booted. True. ;) Something to try: once in a kernel, try either not using devfs or manually creating device nodes and see if you can make it work with ad1s2. > > i.e. if you were to go the sysinstall route and do a fresh install > > on ad1, exhibit same behaviour? >=20 > Yes, it does. I didn't use sysinstall but 'make installworld' but either = doing > fdisk / disklabel by hand or by doing it using sysinstall, both methods s= top > at the same 'cannot find root' prompt when booting off the slice. A reboot > into the old install later and my device entry is gone again. You mean you can't see the new ad1s2 slice from a kernel booted off ad0 either? Which would be consistent to the problem. > > > PS: I thought that there was a sysctl that showed the GEOM topology i= n XML; > > > however I was unable to find it in sysctl -a. Is it still around? > >=20 > > I believe so, phk recently (few months back) mentioned it's staying in. >=20 > Too bad I couldn't find it... Try: sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml > Thanks for your reply, >=20 > --Stijn >=20 > --=20 > Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already > know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be > killed. > -- G.K. Chesterton --=20 Allan Fields, AFRSL - http://afields.ca 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541
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