From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 22:39:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D6010656A9 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 22:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90748FC20 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 22:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so7912247ewy.13 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:39:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.114.3 with SMTP id c3mr661951ebq.51.1294353578760; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:39:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.8.142 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 14:39:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110106230849.H49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <20101230133126.O36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20101231105353.S36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110102102255.00004f57@unknown> <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110103022619.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110104143245.P49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110105152725.U49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110106160720.B49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110106230849.H49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> From: Chris Brennan Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:39:18 -0500 Message-ID: To: Ian Smith Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Bruce Cran , Adam Vande More , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:39:40 -0000 On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ian Smith 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.