Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:06:28 +0200 From: "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl> To: "Daniel Nebdal" <dnebdal@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN Message-ID: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA57081@w2003s01.double-l.local>
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>> 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)... >--=20 >Daniel Nebdal I did the following on my disk and it worked. MAKE A BACKUP AND DON'T BLAME ME IF THINGS GO WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad6 oseek=3D1 bs=3D512 count=3D1 /dev/ad6 was my disk=20 Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com=20 Version: 8.5.422 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2444 - Release Date: 10/18/09 09:04:00
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