Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:07:57PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Jul 11, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > Different and mostly harmful (as per UPDATING, 20090320) problem. > > I think you meant to say harmless and not harmful. Yes, sorry. > >> Is it possible sysinstall is a culprit in all this? > > > > No, the problem is that bsdlabel is missing the so-called "MBR offset" > > from GEOM, because in 8.x GEOM_PART_* are used and they have no such > > geom verb (and anyway, 8.x's bsdlabel queries BSD geoms for it, not > > the > > PART_BSD ones). > > Actually, yes. This is a problem in sysinstall. The "MBR offset" > you're talking about does not relate to the geometry of a device. > It relates to offsets in the disk label. OK, you're right -- I was talking only about the strange offsets inside bsdlabel and warnings that come from these offsets. Aragon should see them if he tries to run bsdlabel from 8.0-BETA1 on the properly partitioned disks with slices that do not start at 0. -- Eygene _ ___ _.--. # \`.|\..----...-'` `-._.-'_.-'` # Remember that it is hard / ' ` , __.--' # to read the on-line manual )/' _/ \ `-_, / # while single-stepping the kernel. `-'" `"\_ ,_.-;_.-\_ ', fsc/as # _.-'_./ {_.' ; / # -- FreeBSD Developers handbook {_.-``-' {_/ #Received on Sat Jul 11 2009 - 21:39:10 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:51 UTC