Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:53:43 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days... Message-ID: <20021001204643.H569-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <49659.1033467603@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20021001202451.X479-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: > >On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > >> Provided nothing terminal pops up in the next 5 days, GEOM will > >> become default in -current on Saturday 5th of october. > >> > >> Please test it now on _your_ configuration and tell me if it > >> fails to work. > > > >It failed to understandard the partitions on a normal (sliced) boot > >drive when I tested it a year ago, but I considered this a feature > >since I don't plan to use it. It somehow worked on an (unsliced) > >zip drive on the same machine. > > Thank you for the historical perspective :-) Oops, it was only a while ago (a month or less). GEOM had not been committed a year ago. The IIRC, I was able to mount the root partition using some magic like mounting it as ad0s2 instead of the correct device ad0a. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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