On 05/07/2010, at 9:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 05/07/2010, at 24:52, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: > >> On 2010-07-04, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>> "bsdlabel: Class not found" >> >> This is because GEOM_BSD -> GEOM_PART_BSD change. bsdlabel(8) needs >> read-write access to the device. If it can't get that, it tries an >> alternative GEOM based method only supported by GEOM_BSD. The error >> message "Class not found" is printed because the "BSD" GEOM class >> doesn't exist. >> >> You might be able to do the changes with gpart(8). > > Ahh that does work.. > > midget# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -i 4 md0s1
<snip> > IMO it's still a regression because bsdlabel used to work, although I can > appreciate it might be a rather in depth change to have it work with the New > World Order (tm). So, why didn't it? Shouldn't it DTRT? This is a stock kernel. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ 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"
