Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL

From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:59:26 -0700
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.com
Received on Fri Apr 03 2009 - 04:00:03 UTC

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