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Re: mounting by wedge name




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Subject: Re: mounting by wedge name

From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:14:17 -0400


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:02:09PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> 
> IIUC, the MBR method matches with higher priority than BSDLABEL,
> and BSDLABEL matches with higher priority than GPT.  Does it help to add
> options DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL and DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR to the kernel
> configuration?

No, because this will *still* cause existing partitions to be matched
by 'dk' units instead of (for example) 'wd' units, which will cause
existing systems to fail to boot -- though in a way which is at least
perhaps possible to recover from using single-user mode, unlike the
issue with the GPT method discovering an irrelevant and unused GPT
table in the alternate location.

Thor


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Re: mounting by wedge name
From: Thor Lancelot Simon

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