Matthew Dillon wrote: > I'm not sure what is going on with Grub but note that I changed he > disklabel for DragonFly as well. Well, not precisely changed it, more > like a natural extension to support up to 16 partitions instead of 8. > > DragonFly should still be able to mount non-extended partition tables, > so maybe FreeBSD did do something to the disk label... maybe GEOM-related.
Your mention of 'non-extended' got me thinking -- the FreeBSD-current partition I'm having trouble with is an extended partition, but it has been working perfectly that way for a year without any problems until now. After the DF boot/loader was updated to recognize extended partitions, I copied my original FreeBSD to an extended UFS1 partition on a second disk, and that's where I've been booting/running it from ever since, by using the DF-improved loader. I just now converted that FBSD extended partition to a primary partition and everything works again -- grub uses it, DF mounts it, I can boot it. This is hardly a crisis, but after having it working for a year on an extended partition I'm a bit frustrated that it just stopped working. I doubt your changes to the DF disklabel had anything to do with this new problem, because that would certainly not prevent grub from reading a FBSD disklabel that was created a year ago. Well, if anyone has any thoughts....
