geom_bsd

[Jean-Francois Gobin]

Well, sounds like a perfect occasion for a "brave" to write to emulation
code, that can mount i386 partitions on alpha, using raw mode access to
the disk.

JF


On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Saturday 05 June 2004 10:55 am, Nick Jones wrote:
> > John Baldwin (jhb at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > > On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:27 pm, Nick Jones wrote:
> > > > I'm having a problem when loading geom_bsd on an Alpha XPS1000 machine
> > > > and subsequently attempting to access a particular IDE drive, which is
> > > > as follows:
> > >
> > > If you are adding a new label do this:
> > > sudo bsdlabel /dev/ad0 auto
> >
> > Sorry, I just realised how badly worded my original post was.  The drive
> > in question is pulled from an x86 install of FreeBSD and has data on it
> > I'd like to access in this Alpha box, therefore I don't want to do
> > anything destructive.
> >
> > From what I understand this should now be possible thanks to GEOM, but
> > there again I could be wrong.
>
> Well, GEOM should let you see the devices in /dev.  Note that you will need to
> add 'GEOM_MBR' to your kernel (either as an option or kldload geom_mbr.ko) so
> that GEOM will see the MBR that the label lives inside of.  That should give
> you the /dev/ad0s1a, etc. devices.  However, I'm not sure if you will be able
> to mount the filesystems due to sizeof(long) differences.  Since the
> endianness is the same you might be able to, though.
>
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