Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:24:58 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br@gmail.com>, George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM and moving to CURRENT from 7.1 Message-ID: <496F8D8A.1060508@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <A8E47805-888E-4282-8623-72A65B593D47@mac.com> References: <FC3D3CF7-091B-4ECF-BE38-6C7751C20994@neville-neil.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901112002080.3696@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <496D0364.2060505@psg.com> <47d0403c0901131335h46e7b151p3768de9a3e2c2027@mail.gmail.com> <EC370904A7B74B93887C79E120CA2835@adnote989> <085BEE07-BAE5-4A45-A14D-9587987FAA5C@mac.com> <496F44FA.1070004@andric.com> <48C1C477-B7BE-43B0-AC57-9DEB7BF9AA88@mac.com> <496F7347.4060007@andric.com> <A8E47805-888E-4282-8623-72A65B593D47@mac.com>
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On 2009-01-15 19:05, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> Hmm, strangely enough I have multiple systems which really do use ad0s1 >> while installed DD using sysinstall, and have been using that since years... > This is a problem with sysinstall. It looks like DD is broken. > MBR partitions are always created. Indeed, and the MBR itself is filled with /boot/boot1, plus a partition table. It is possible this was done to appease some PC BIOSes, because some of those refuse to boot, if there is no "valid" MBR with an active partition... > GEOM_PART correctly uses the > BSD disklabel that's in the 2nd sector, but GEOM_MBR claims the > MBR being unaware that the disk is DD. But how can this be, if I don't have GEOM_MBR in my kernel config? (I'm using GENERIC, in fact.) > libdisk is broken in that it should > not create MBR slices for DD configurations to begin with... As stated above, this might be on purpose; enough braindead BIOSes out there... :)
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