Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:13:20 +0200 From: Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> Cc: dwight@berendse.org, Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org>, Laurens Timmermans <laurens@timkapel.nl>, FreeBSD GEOM <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New GEOM module: geom_xboxhd Message-ID: <20070415111320.GA94418@rink.nu> In-Reply-To: <20070415070436.GQ81821@hoeg.nl> References: <20070414115959.GN81821@hoeg.nl> <20070414160629.GA82214@rink.nu> <20070415070436.GQ81821@hoeg.nl>
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Hi Ed, On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:04:36AM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > > Have you tried what sysinstall(8) does when it sees such a layout? It'd > > be a shame if it nuked the partition table... :-) > > Not yet :-) A friend of mine, Dwight Berendse (added to CC), has just tried this using my soon-to-be-released new 6-STABLE FreeBSD/xbox CD. It worked nicely on a newly-prepared Xbox harddisk, but sysinstall(8) does not use the information. A quick inspection (Argh, I should study and not code, dammit...) yields that libdisk(3) actually ignores the XBOXHD partitions (refer to /usr/src/lib/libdisk/open_disk.c); and thus, sysinstall(8) will not see them. Therefore, even though the module works, I think we'd need some extra effort to make this behave nicely with sysinstall(8) :-/ Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But yet a far more terrible thing, to admit it." - Darth Traya
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