GPT partitions missing, upgrading 7.4 to 8.3

Nicola Tiling nti at w4w.net
Sat Sep 8 19:42:01 UTC 2012


I've build a new kernel with

nooptions   GEOM_PART_BSD
nooptions   GEOM_PART_EBR
nooptions   GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT
nooptions   GEOM_PART_MBR
options     GEOM_BSD
options     GEOM_LABEL
options     GEOM_PART_GPT
options     GEOM_MBR

Now my gpt partitions are seen under 8.3 :-) I'm unsure wether to use GEOM_BSD or GEOM_PART_BSD - but it works.

Thanks - Nicola

>> 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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