From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 2 02:11:37 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 E2FE2106564A for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 02:11:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout021.mac.com (asmtpout021.mac.com [17.148.16.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1CF8FC08 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2009 02:11:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from MacBook-Pro.lan.xcllnt.net (mail.xcllnt.net [75.101.29.67]) by asmtp021.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KHG002GDBF4P080@asmtp021.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <4CCDEFD6-830E-4C8F-B7A2-B7878F8842BE@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Tai-hwa Liang In-reply-to: <0904020940371.36257@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:11:26 -0700 References: <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <0904020940371.36257@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL 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, 02 Apr 2009 02:11:38 -0000 On Apr 1, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> >> 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? > > Following are what gpart sees with a GEOM_PART_{BSD,EBR,MBR} and > GEOM_{BSD,MBR} enabled kernel: Please remove GEOM_{BSD,MBR} when enabling GEOM_PART_{BSD,EBR,MBR} (and vice versa) and let me know how things look then. Thanks, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com