Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 00:25:33 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <AANLkTinfNLobzkC_s1crKosyHPPFaUcDsyx0DVVaNCja@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101062143420.27251@wonkity.com> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <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> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101061423570.23404@wonkity.com> <AANLkTi=1Zk2-Us=z9vyR6RcoodaPOxj=4BtXvCtYosKh@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101062143420.27251@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > destroy -F is supposed to mean "Forced destroying of the partition table > even if it is not empty." But compare to this thread on the forum earlier > today: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20731 > > Maybe -F isn't quite as brutal as it needs to be. > > I still can't find any documentation on this in the manpages? HA! I just finished skimming the above thread, -F is indeed new and not in 8.1. I am going to set up a local mirror of 7.x, 8.x and HEAD over the next week and if I remember, I'll be sure to check it out and see if it does infact exist in 8.2. > So my question is this now, once gpart has touched a disk, does it have >> the partition-aids now? >> > > GPT does seem to be tenacious, and I'm wondering if maybe there's something > left in RAM that's written back to the disk on shutdown. > > Sneaky ... but possibly not likely since I more then once pulled the plug and didn't give it time to actually write anything. Either way, between your link and Bruce's, all is well. > > Moving on, I then continued the standard process listed by your link, >> bsdlabel'd my layout and saved it, when I do an 'ls -lsga /dev | grep ad4' I >> see that I have partitions a,b,d,e,f >> and I was able to newfs each one of them >> >> Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a >> manual install of just base? if I can get the system installed at this point >> then all should be good when I reboot. >> > > I would just boot the install CD, enter q and the fdisk screen, enter the > mountpoints and q at the label screen, and let it do the rest. See, I did that the first time and it all came to a screaming halt. That's when I started to get creative with Ian. I'm going to take a stab in the dark and blame Seagate for kludging the disk on me. Either way, a manual fdisk and bsdlabel did the trick, it's got to be something in sysinstall not liking what ever was written there by gpart...
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