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Date:      Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:05 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gpart oddity
Message-ID:  <D5FECDFA-5620-4C2D-A0D5-66F387F832A9@mac.com>
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On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 23/10/2008 00:03 Marcel Moolenaar said the following:
>> On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> I'll try to boot into a new kernel now (the one without GEOM_MBR  
>>> and GEOM_BSD).
>> Could you send a quick "it works" message if this was the
>> problem?
>
> Unfortunately, no. But I can't really tell what's going wrong.
>
> I do a verbose boot, but I don't see any GEOM message whatsoever after
> GEOM: new disk ad4
> And then kernel can not find root filesystem and at the prompt it  
> reports that it sees only slice devices, ad4s1 and ad4s2, but not  
> ad4s1a or any other partition.
> So I can not complete booting and I don't know how to debug that.

It's possible that I haven't merged all the changes from
HEAD to 7-stable. Try the following patch:

Index: g_part_bsd.c
===================================================================
--- g_part_bsd.c	(revision 183454)
+++ g_part_bsd.c	(revision 183455)
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
  	magic2 = le32dec(buf + 132);
  	g_free(buf);
  	return ((magic1 == DISKMAGIC && magic2 == DISKMAGIC)
-	    ? G_PART_PROBE_PRI_NORM : ENXIO);
+	    ? G_PART_PROBE_PRI_HIGH : ENXIO);
  }

  static int

FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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