on 21/09/2009 20:05 Ted Faber said the following: > Thanks for getting back to me. It does seem to be fixed in 8.0-RC1 (and > thanks for that fix, too). That is, 8.0-RC1 finds the drive, but... > > 8.0 (RELENG_8, from last night) doesn't seem to find the FBSD partitions > on the drive. It finds the drive and the BIOS partition (slice). It > fails on my old motherboard (not the one above) that boots 7.2-STABLE > just fine. It drops me into the menu to manually configure the root > partition, but doesn't accept either the native device names for the > root partition (/dev/ad0s1a) or a geom label (/dev/label/root). The > list of GEOM devices only includes ad0 and ad0s1. > > The disk isn't dangerously dedicated, but I only added geom labels to > the partitions last night. The glabels work fine under 7.2-STABLE, but > RELENG_8 seems to ignore them. I've attached output from fdisk, > bsdlabel, and glabel in case I'm misinterpreting them. > > I've been waiting for a free moment to write a more complete report, but > since I've got your attention... > > Any ideas? I'll be able to run more diagnostics under 8.0 tonight.
This could be another of GEOM_PART_BSD vs GEOM_BSD issues. I think this topic has been discussed several times recently on -current. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
