kern/141235: 8.0 no longer provides /dev entries for all disk slices [regression]

Jaakko Heinonen jh at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 28 10:00:11 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR kern/141235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh at FreeBSD.org>
To: dieterbsd at engineer.com
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com
Subject: Re: kern/141235: 8.0 no longer provides /dev entries for all disk
 slices [regression]
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:52:02 +0300

 On 2010-05-27, dieterbsd at engineer.com wrote:
 > opt_geom.h previously contained:
 > 
 > #define GEOM_LABEL 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_EBR 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_GPT 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_MBR 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_BSD 1
 > 
 > Added GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD to config file.
 > (previous config file was stock GENERIC)
 
 > opt_geom.h now:
 > 
 > #define GEOM_BSD 1
 > #define GEOM_LABEL 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_EBR 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_GPT 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_MBR 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT 1
 > #define GEOM_PART_BSD 1
 > #define GEOM_MBR 1
 
 You should remove GEOM_PART_* entries. I think that the duplicates you
 saw are because you had geom_part still enabled.
 
 > 8.0 with GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD:
 [...]
 > So the extended partition showed up, but now I have some duplicate /dev 
 > entries
 > and some oddball bogus entries.
 
 -- 
 Jaakko


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