From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 13 13:17: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B280A37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2976A43E7B for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (adsl-64-175-106-166.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.175.106.166]) by pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.3 da nor stuldap/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9DKGwne670572 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:16:59 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA9D43E.2080203@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:14:54 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021001 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM and NetBSD partitions/disklabels References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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