On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson_at_ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: > As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in older > versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode, and > partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse these > ambiguous disk labels differently. > > You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the old > partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than GEOM_PART), but > you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old modules > were planned to be removed at some point. > > Gavin Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that GEOM_PART would be happy with? That would open up the possibility of correcting the old label in-place (somehow)... -- Daniel NebdalReceived on Sun Oct 18 2009 - 13:53:07 UTC
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