zfs: affected by geom_(mbr|bsd) => geom_part_(mbr|bsd) ?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

[sorry for the delay]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 05/11/2008 18:03 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>> Using GENERIC amd64 7-BETA2 system (installed from "official" ISO) I
*snip*
>> Then I built a custom kernel with nooptions for GEOM_(BSD|MBR) and
>> options for GEOM_PART_(BSD|MBR). When I tried to boot this kernel it
>> couldn't mount ZFS root and I simply rebooted my machine when I  
>> stuck at
>> mountroot prompt (I couldn't enter UFS2 root because of unrelated
>> keyboard problem).
>> The boot was verbose and I didn't see any peculiar GEOM or GEOM_PART
>> messages (errors, warnings).

The problem is very likely related to change 184204. This
change fixes a conflict between MBR and BSD. Unfortunately
this fix wasn't in 7.1-BETA2. You should not have a problem
with 7.1-RELEASE (nor 7-STABLE).

FYI,

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Marcel Moolenaar
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