Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> 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.

   Thanks!

> *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

00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000200  57 45 56 82 00 00 00 00  61 6d 6e 65 73 69 61 63  |WEV.....amnesiac|
00000210  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000220  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 02 00 00 3f 00 00 00  |............?...|
00000230  10 00 00 00 1a 79 00 00  f0 03 00 00 11 da dc 01  |.....y..........|
00000240  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  10 0e 01 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000250  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000280  00 00 00 00 57 45 56 82  93 e0 08 00 00 20 00 00  |....WEV...... ..|
00000290  00 00 00 00 01 da dc 01  a0 40 1d 02 00 08 00 00  |........._at_......|
000002a0  07 08 88 6f 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |...o............|
000002b0  00 00 00 00 11 da dc 01  a0 40 1d 02 00 00 00 00  |........._at_......|
000002c0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000400

> BTW: Thanks for testing!

   Thanks for fixing! :)

-- 
Cheers,

Tai-hwa Liang