In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
>> >On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >
>> >> Provided nothing terminal pops up in the next 5 days, GEOM will
>> >> become default in -current on Saturday 5th of october.
>> >>
>> >> Please test it now on _your_ configuration and tell me if it
>> >> fails to work.
>> >
>> >It failed to understandard the partitions on a normal (sliced) boot
>> >drive when I tested it a year ago, but I considered this a feature
>> >since I don't plan to use it. It somehow worked on an (unsliced)
>> >zip drive on the same machine.
>>
>> Thank you for the historical perspective :-)
>
>Oops, it was only a while ago (a month or less). GEOM had not been
>committed a year ago. The IIRC, I was able to mount the root partition
>using some magic like mounting it as ad0s2 instead of the correct device
>ad0a.
Can you send me the output from
dd if=/dev/ad0 count=32
from this disk ?
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