GEOM and moving to CURRENT from 7.1

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote:

> On 2009-01-15 20:35, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> You need a boot sector for the BIOS to jump into, but
>> it doesn't have to be a MBR with slices. That's why
>> a DD has something that looks an awful lot like a MBR
>> in the first sector. It could very well be boot sector
>> of an FAT* file system.
>
> I can confirm, that wiping out the partition table (but not the boot
> code), using "bsdlabel -B /dev/ad0s1", makes "s1" disappear.   
> Subsequent
> boots can then be done from /dev/ad0a, and this works both for "old"
> kernels, e.g. from before r186240 and after.

Thanks *very* much for testing! It's important that we
get the details right, so that we can consider adding
code to help in the migration and fix whatever is broken.

Much appreciated,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com