Quoth Marcel Moolenaar <xcl...@mac.com>: > On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: > > Quoth Marcel Moolenaar <xcl...@mac.com>: > >> On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > >>>> > >>> FreeBSD 8.0 no longer supports "dangerously dedicated" disks. > >> > >> This is not true. The problem is that sysinstall creates an invalid > >> "dangerously dedicated" disk, as demonstrated by doing: <snip> > > > > Are you able to clarify exactly what is no longer working in 8? > > Everything is working, but behaviour has changed for invalid > disks.
Right. However, if I were to take a system that worked with 7.x and upgrade, and found that the disks were no longer detected, I would consider that to be 'not working' :). > Invalid disks are disks with conflicting partitioning > information. In FreeBSD 8.x the behaviour is deterministic > and for the broken dangerously dedicated disks that sysinstall > creates this means that we use the partition information in > the BSD disklabel. In FreeBSD 7.x this could come from either > the MBR or the BSD disklabel, with the MBR the more common > scenario. OK, so this is all actually about a bug in sysinstall. It might be nice if the UPDATING entry mentioned this: as it stands it is not clear this doesn't affect people who created proper disklabels by hand (including the obligatory dd to wipe out old MBR labels before starting). > > If I currently have a working ad2{b,c,d,e}, will they > > be picked up by 8, or would I have to repartition slightly smaller with > > a useless MBR slice in front? > > Yes, if you have ad2a and not ad2s1a, then you have a > proper dangerously dedicated disk and FreeBSD 8.x will > work correctly with your disk. Thank you for explaining. Ben _______________________________________________ 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"