GEOM and moving to CURRENT from 7.1
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
Wed Jan 14 08:35:42 PST 2009
On Jan 14, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Luiz Otavio O Souza wrote:
>>> installed amd64 7.1 from cdrom
>>> partitioned two sata drives to single partitions
>>> labeled and gmirrored
>>>
>>> upgraded to 8-current
>>> ad0 started falling off mirror
>>> ad2 started reporting smart errors
>
>
> Here i cannot boot from my old disk after update my i386 7-STABLE to
> -current, my ad0s1a slice isn't found.
>
> When the kernel is compiled with GEOM_PART_MBR and GEOM_PART_BSD,
> the new geom_part stuff is failing to read the slices and bsdlabel
> together.
>
> If i only load the GEOM_PART_MBR i see the slices detected (ad0s1
> ad0s2), but when i load the GEOM_PART_BSD together it will show only
> the bsd labels, as if it is created directly on raw device (ad0a
> ad0b ad0d ad0e ...).
>
> The only way i've found to boot my system again is to compile a new
> kernel with GEOM_BSD and GEOM_MBR, instead of GEOM_PART_*.
Wipe out your second sector on the disk. You have a
stale BSD disklabel that prevents the MBR from being
used.
FYI,
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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
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