GPT partitions missing, upgrading 7.4 to 8.3

[Nicola Tiling]

Andrey, ahanks for your help! I will build a new kernel.


Am 03.09.2012 um 07:02 schrieb "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>:

> On 02.09.2012 19:47, Nicola Tiling wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I'm trying to upgrade 7.4 to 8.3, but I fail.
>> 
>> On a third slice I have nine gpt partitions. Originally they were created under 6.2 with "gpt".
>> The upgrade from 6.4 to 7.4 runs without problems, but now from 7.4 to 8.3 the partitions are not
>> found. I can't see them under /dev and gpart list shows curious things, a fifth slice in the
>> third and a EBR scheme instead of GPT. I have load the kernel modules geom_part_gtp,
>> geom_part_mbr, geom_part_bsd. Is there a save way to install 8.3 or is it dead-end?
> 
> GEOM_PART_GPT cannot be nested.
> You should backup your data and recreate your partitions, then restore the data.
> 
> The hackish way: you can remove GEOM_PART_MBR and GEOM_PART_EBR from your kernel config,
> and use GEOM_MBR instead. But you can still use GEOM_PART_GPT. In this case GEOM_PART_GPT will be
> attached to the GEOM_MBR provider and nesting will not be detected.
> 
> -- 
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
> 
> 
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