Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:39:18 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <AANLkTinsSpMQrshHjHjmixhF=Sd4U-edxXvAY-cbPcSh@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110106230849.H49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <20101230133126.O36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinCZuupW%2BGFMeL70nPO90tZAAJNj8g0SaOztsR3@mail.gmail.com> <20101231105353.S36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinSbE8d=iYES78GJmYO2PyOAGHMjwQ%2B2HT45yxc@mail.gmail.com> <20110102102255.00004f57@unknown> <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110103022619.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTimkCdtULT9jfNtwKcfxF8R-TQ_j=qZgS-Y-YGfu@mail.gmail.com> <20110104143245.P49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTi=Aqh4cpmdkHx1QsTyoYh7nhinEfDUuPO3fUAh5@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101041840310.14633@wonkity.com> <20110105152725.U49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinfVLGomOj-Nanvr4sgei-p=HQ9-Mh0rXQQ7E%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> <20110106160720.B49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTimXQXmk2t8xBN1H7fWkyNo%2BFyasU8KaSeakpnUJ@mail.gmail.com> <20110106230849.H49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in > this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to > help somebody get the OS installed is about as basic as it gets for me; > I'd be hugely relieved if someone with more / better clues took it on. > > We didn't get to try W)rite from the fdisk and label screens until long > after all attempts at letting sysinstall deal with things had failed to > even slice the disk, bombing on this error every time. Chris' disk is > brand new, nothing installed. W)riting from sysinstall succeeded at > least in creating ad4s1 in the MBR and writing the bootblocks to that > slice. I made it very clear this is not something to do without due > care; in the circumstances there was absolutely nothing to be lost. > > And then the GPT issue, of which I was totally ignorant. Fixed. > > I agree, you seem to be lumping me into a generalization based on the errormsg. > > If you google the error message in the OP, the first result is: > > > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1675 > > I read this, while that PR Reporter claims the same error message, the conditions in which s/he gets it _are not_ the same conditions in which I am getting this.
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