On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote: >> The real fix will be a bit more involved, because we should >> avoid wiping out the boot menu entry on a write. But at least >> with the patch you should be able to read the EBR. > > Much better. I can see extended partition nodes after booting with > the > patched kernel: I dug a bit deeper and it's not a boot manager menu entry, but some signature particular to some tool. I'm not going to worry about preserving that. Patch committed. *snip* > => 0 192855600 ad0s3 EBR (92G) > 0 16783200 1 !131 (8.0G) > 16783200 50243760 266401 !11 (24G) > 67026960 31251024 1063921 freebsd (15G) > 98277984 94577616 1559969 freebsd (45G) > > The only downside is that I'll have to update /etc/fstab to boot > correctly > as /dev/ad0s7a is still missing. Ok, let's look at those sectors as well. Can you send the output of: dd if=/dev/ad0s7 of=dump.dd count=2 bs=512 BTW: Thanks for testing! -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Fri Apr 03 2009 - 04:00:03 UTC
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