Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:05:25 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_bsd Message-ID: <20040607180524.GZ51677@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <200406071147.40782.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20040522162706.GA7409@dischord.org> <200405241032.18350.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040605145544.GA31231@dischord.org> <200406071147.40782.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:47:40AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday 05 June 2004 10:55 am, Nick Jones wrote: > > John Baldwin (jhb@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:27 pm, Nick Jones wrote: > > > > I'm having a problem when loading geom_bsd on an Alpha XPS1000 machine > > > > and subsequently attempting to access a particular IDE drive, which is > > > > as follows: > > > > > > If you are adding a new label do this: > > > sudo bsdlabel /dev/ad0 auto > > > > Sorry, I just realised how badly worded my original post was. The drive > > in question is pulled from an x86 install of FreeBSD and has data on it > > I'd like to access in this Alpha box, therefore I don't want to do > > anything destructive. > > > > From what I understand this should now be possible thanks to GEOM, but > > there again I could be wrong. > > Well, GEOM should let you see the devices in /dev. Note that you will need to > add 'GEOM_MBR' to your kernel (either as an option or kldload geom_mbr.ko) so > that GEOM will see the MBR that the label lives inside of. That should give > you the /dev/ad0s1a, etc. devices. However, I'm not sure if you will be able > to mount the filesystems due to sizeof(long) differences. Since the > endianness is the same you might be able to, though. I migrated a disk from i386 to alpha about 3 years ago whithout problems - it was a DD partioned disk and just required copying the disklabel into the alpha location. If theres any FS specific problem then it has to be new. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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