From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 19:25:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFFE106566B for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:25:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.andric.com (cl-327.ede-01.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:7b8:2ff:146::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AD28FC12 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:25:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:9495:274b:b36c:ce34] (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:9495:274b:b36c:ce34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8B90611F838; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:24:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <496F8D8A.1060508@andric.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:24:58 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090108 Shredder/3.0b2pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar References: <496D0364.2060505@psg.com> <47d0403c0901131335h46e7b151p3768de9a3e2c2027@mail.gmail.com> <085BEE07-BAE5-4A45-A14D-9587987FAA5C@mac.com> <496F44FA.1070004@andric.com> <48C1C477-B7BE-43B0-AC57-9DEB7BF9AA88@mac.com> <496F7347.4060007@andric.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Randy Bush , Luiz Otavio O Souza , George Neville-Neil , Ben Kaduk , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM and moving to CURRENT from 7.1 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: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:25:01 -0000 On 2009-01-15 19:05, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> Hmm, strangely enough I have multiple systems which really do use ad0s1 >> while installed DD using sysinstall, and have been using that since years... > This is a problem with sysinstall. It looks like DD is broken. > MBR partitions are always created. Indeed, and the MBR itself is filled with /boot/boot1, plus a partition table. It is possible this was done to appease some PC BIOSes, because some of those refuse to boot, if there is no "valid" MBR with an active partition... > GEOM_PART correctly uses the > BSD disklabel that's in the 2nd sector, but GEOM_MBR claims the > MBR being unaware that the disk is DD. But how can this be, if I don't have GEOM_MBR in my kernel config? (I'm using GENERIC, in fact.) > libdisk is broken in that it should > not create MBR slices for DD configurations to begin with... As stated above, this might be on purpose; enough braindead BIOSes out there... :)