Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:14:54 -0700 From: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM and NetBSD partitions/disklabels Message-ID: <3DA9D43E.2080203@hotmail.com> References: <aoc2vv$1d1f$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20021013151535.GA66616@schweikhardt.net>, Jens Schweikhardt writes: > >>Poul-Henning et al, >> >>recently I've tried installing NetBSD on a new disk. I'm not sure if the >>following is a coincidence (because it never worked before, even without >>GEOM) or is due to GEOM issues. My -current is from Oct 12 and the kernel >>derived from GENERIC, plus/minus devices/options to match my hardware. >> >>NetBSD uses sysid 169 for their slice and a new style disklabel with 16 >>partitions. FreeBSD is unable to deal with that disklabel, it seems. > > > We never had to ability to do this before. GEOM can probably do it for > you, with something like this patch: <snip> Oops. Now I get the same error with both kinds of partitions: disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not supported by device (However, it compiled just fine ;-) I have a NetBSD partition I'd like to read also. Is there something simple, or preferably even braindead, that I can do to debug this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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