Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:10:29 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs: affected by geom_(mbr|bsd) => geom_part_(mbr|bsd) ? Message-ID: <49227875.6090902@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <B6997A5A-1B56-4325-A24A-EF90AF8C6A6A@mac.com> References: <4911C3E9.405@icyb.net.ua> <49198A1A.3080600@icyb.net.ua> <B6997A5A-1B56-4325-A24A-EF90AF8C6A6A@mac.com>
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on 18/11/2008 07:27 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: > [sorry for the delay] > > On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 05/11/2008 18:03 Andriy Gapon said the following: >>> Using GENERIC amd64 7-BETA2 system (installed from "official" ISO) I > *snip* >>> Then I built a custom kernel with nooptions for GEOM_(BSD|MBR) and >>> options for GEOM_PART_(BSD|MBR). When I tried to boot this kernel it >>> couldn't mount ZFS root and I simply rebooted my machine when I stuck at >>> mountroot prompt (I couldn't enter UFS2 root because of unrelated >>> keyboard problem). >>> The boot was verbose and I didn't see any peculiar GEOM or GEOM_PART >>> messages (errors, warnings). > > The problem is very likely related to change 184204. This > change fixes a conflict between MBR and BSD. Unfortunately > this fix wasn't in 7.1-BETA2. You should not have a problem > with 7.1-RELEASE (nor 7-STABLE). Marcel, this particular change was definitely in kernel. As I reported in subsequent posts gpart show reported everything correctly and device node existed in dev, etc. UFS was happy about all its partitions, only ZFS had trouble. I think that this was something different, more subtle. -- Andriy Gapon
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