Re: RELENG_8 regression: cannot detect partitions (now with boot -v)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:19:04PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote:
> 8.0 (RELENG_8, from last night) doesn't seem to find the FBSD partitions
> on my PATA drive that boots FreeBSD 7-STABLE fine.  RELENG_8 finds the
> drive and the BIOS partition (slice).  It fails on the same hardware
> that boots 7.2-STABLE just fine.  It drops me into the menu to manually
> configure the root partition, but doesn't accept either the native
> device names for the root partition (/dev/ad0s1a) or a geom label
> (/dev/label/root).  The list of GEOM devices only includes ad0 and
> ad0s1.
> 
> The disk isn't dangerously dedicated, but I only added geom labels to
> the partitions last night.  The glabels work fine under 7.2-STABLE, but
> RELENG_8 seems to ignore them.  I've attached output from fdisk,
> bsdlabel, and glabel in case I'm misinterpreting them.  I haven't gotten
> a dmesg yet, because I need to get this kernel on a memory stick to do
> so.
> 
> I'll be able to run more diagnostics under 8.0 tonight.

I was able to boot -v from a very recent (morning of 21 Sept 2009 PDT)
RELENG_8.  The output is attached.

Any help would be great.

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