Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:11:26 -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 Message-ID: <4CCDEFD6-830E-4C8F-B7A2-B7878F8842BE@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <0904020940371.36257@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> References: <DED07257-A1C7-4504-9A9E-CAAC2A9737D6@mac.com> <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <gqt3um$f77$3@ger.gmane.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <DC771BC5-F356-4D81-9082-91C922CCBF38@mac.com> <0904020940371.36257@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
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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
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