Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL

From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:11:26 -0700
On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
>>
>>> that's too bad.  Since my /home is sitting on the extended  
>>> partition,
>>> the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_
>>> removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the
>>> kernel configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't
>>> boot).
>>
>> That sounds like a bug, because logical partitions are
>> supported. Can you enable GEOM_PART_BSD, GEOM_PART_EBR
>> and GEOM_PART_MBR and tell me which GEOMs are available
>> at the mount root prompt?
>
>  Following are what gpart sees with a GEOM_PART_{BSD,EBR,MBR} and
> GEOM_{BSD,MBR} enabled kernel:

Please remove GEOM_{BSD,MBR} when enabling GEOM_PART_{BSD,EBR,MBR}
(and vice versa) and let me know how things look then.

Thanks,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt_at_mac.com
Received on Thu Apr 02 2009 - 00:11:37 UTC

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