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Date:      Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:25:08 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL
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On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:

> that's too bad.  Since my /home is sitting on the extended partition,
> the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_
> removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the
> kernel configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't
> boot).

That sounds like a bug, because logical partitions are
supported. Can you enable GEOM_PART_BSD, GEOM_PART_EBR
and GEOM_PART_MBR and tell me which GEOMs are available
at the mount root prompt?

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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