Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:53:05 +0200 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, David Ehrmann <ehrmann@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> Subject: Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN Message-ID: <f8b073790910180853n2cc8cc72ua1006e015e2b3525@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091018162750.E82400@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <4ACE6D84.3000209@gmail.com> <4ACE833A.3030506@uffner.com> <4ACE9DFD.3010207@gmail.com> <200910131644.04358.john@baldwin.cx> <ea2d4a5b0910170126r78b2afcfib1547722bb3758b8@mail.gmail.com> <86ljja3ud5.fsf@ds4.des.no> <f8b073790910171705p1c5c996atee2c6aa109ec9d15@mail.gmail.com> <20091018162750.E82400@ury.york.ac.uk>
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: > 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)... -- Daniel Nebdal
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