From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 18 15:32:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5B21065670 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:32:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F7D8FC14 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw7.york.ac.uk (mail-gw7.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.30]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n9IFWLDo003644; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:32:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw7.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1MzXk5-0006Fc-SU; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:32:21 +0100 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9IFWLMH087523; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:32:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n9IFWIU9087495; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:32:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:32:18 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Daniel Nebdal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20091018162750.E82400@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <4ACE6D84.3000209@gmail.com> <4ACE833A.3030506@uffner.com> <4ACE9DFD.3010207@gmail.com> <200910131644.04358.john@baldwin.cx> <86ljja3ud5.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-329387635-1255879938=:82400" X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: Antony Mawer , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , David Ehrmann , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:32:54 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-329387635-1255879938=:82400 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Daniel Nebdal wrote: > 2009/10/17 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav : >> Antony Mawer writes: >>> Am I correct in reading this as saying that -any- system which was >>> setup as dangerously dedicated will be unbootable under 8.0, and the >>> only way to fix is to basically repartition and reinstall...? If so >>> ... !!! >> >> You brought it upon yourself by setting it up that way in the first >> place. =A0It's called *dangerously* dedicated for a reason. >> > > Indeed, though I was under the impression that the reason was "nothing > else will understand this", not "we might not support this in the > future". As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in older=20 versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode, and=20 partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse these= =20 ambiguous disk labels differently. You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the old=20 partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than GEOM_PART),=20 but you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old=20 modules were planned to be removed at some point. Gavin --0-329387635-1255879938=:82400--