8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN

[Daniel Nebdal]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gavin Atkinson
<gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> As I understand things, the problems are partially due to a bug in older
> versions of sysinstall that created incorrect disklables in DD mode, and
> partially due to the new GEOM partitioning modules, which now parse these
> ambiguous disk labels differently.
>
> You can get around this by compiling a custom kernel and using the old
> partitioning modules (use GEOM_MBR and GEOM_BSD rather than GEOM_PART), but
> you may well just be postponing the problem as I believe the old modules
> were planned to be removed at some point.
>
> Gavin

Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that
GEOM_PART would be happy with?
That would open up the possibility of correcting the old label
in-place (somehow)...

-- 
Daniel Nebdal