Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:32:18 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> Cc: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, David Ehrmann <ehrmann@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> Subject: Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN Message-ID: <20091018162750.E82400@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <f8b073790910171705p1c5c996atee2c6aa109ec9d15@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ACE6D84.3000209@gmail.com> <4ACE833A.3030506@uffner.com> <4ACE9DFD.3010207@gmail.com> <200910131644.04358.john@baldwin.cx> <ea2d4a5b0910170126r78b2afcfib1547722bb3758b8@mail.gmail.com> <86ljja3ud5.fsf@ds4.des.no> <f8b073790910171705p1c5c996atee2c6aa109ec9d15@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-329387635-1255879938=:82400 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Daniel Nebdal wrote: > 2009/10/17 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>: >> Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org> writes: >>> Am I correct in reading this as saying that -any- system which was >>> setup as dangerously dedicated will be unbootable under 8.0, and the >>> only way to fix is to basically repartition and reinstall...? If so >>> ... !!! >> >> You brought it upon yourself by setting it up that way in the first >> place. =A0It's called *dangerously* dedicated for a reason. >> > > Indeed, though I was under the impression that the reason was "nothing > else will understand this", not "we might not support this in the > future". As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in older=20 versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode, and=20 partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse these= =20 ambiguous disk labels differently. You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the old=20 partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than GEOM_PART),=20 but you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old=20 modules were planned to be removed at some point. Gavin --0-329387635-1255879938=:82400--
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