Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
Thu Apr 2 23:00:03 PDT 2009
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:29 PM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
>> The real fix will be a bit more involved, because we should
>> avoid wiping out the boot menu entry on a write. But at least
>> with the patch you should be able to read the EBR.
>
> Much better. I can see extended partition nodes after booting with
> the
> patched kernel:
I dug a bit deeper and it's not a boot manager menu entry,
but some signature particular to some tool. I'm not going
to worry about preserving that.
Patch committed.
*snip*
> => 0 192855600 ad0s3 EBR (92G)
> 0 16783200 1 !131 (8.0G)
> 16783200 50243760 266401 !11 (24G)
> 67026960 31251024 1063921 freebsd (15G)
> 98277984 94577616 1559969 freebsd (45G)
>
> The only downside is that I'll have to update /etc/fstab to boot
> correctly
> as /dev/ad0s7a is still missing.
Ok, let's look at those sectors as well. Can you send the
output of:
dd if=/dev/ad0s7 of=dump.dd count=2 bs=512
BTW: Thanks for testing!
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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
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