From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 05:25:57 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 06A20106564A for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 05:25:57 +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 857FD8FC16 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 05:25:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so7987940ewy.13 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:25:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.36.2 with SMTP id r2mr10918672ebd.51.1294377954902; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:25:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.8.142 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:25:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <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: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 00:25:33 -0500 Message-ID: To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Bruce Cran , Adam Vande More , Ian Smith , 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: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:25:57 -0000 On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Warren Block 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...