New GEOM module: geom_xboxhd

[Rink Springer]

Hi Ed,

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:04:36AM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > Have you tried what sysinstall(8) does when it sees such a layout? It'd
> > be a shame if it nuked the partition table... :-)
> 
> Not yet :-)

A friend of mine, Dwight Berendse (added to CC), has just tried this
using my soon-to-be-released new 6-STABLE FreeBSD/xbox CD. It worked
nicely on a newly-prepared Xbox harddisk, but sysinstall(8) does not use
the information.

A quick inspection (Argh, I should study and not code, dammit...) yields
that libdisk(3) actually ignores the XBOXHD partitions (refer to
/usr/src/lib/libdisk/open_disk.c); and thus, sysinstall(8) will not see
them.

Therefore, even though the module works, I think we'd need some extra
effort to make this behave nicely with sysinstall(8) :-/

Regards,

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