GEOM label tasting of windows disk hangs on 8.1

[Marius Nünnerich]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 14:11, Bengt Ahlgren <bengta at sics.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When I was trying to install 8.1-REL from the dvd install media on a
> ThinkPad X40 that has the original Windows XP partitions on its disk,
> the geom label tasting seems to hang with the disk activity light on.
> I just submitted this PR:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=149523
>
> 7.3-REL works just fine.
>
> Is this a known issue?
>
> I assume that wiping the mbr will fix it, but I will defer that if
> additional debugging is needed.

Could you please send a hexdump of the first sector of that device?