Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 01:46:16 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> Subject: Re: MacBook patches Message-ID: <86bqgq3m3r.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> In-Reply-To: <20070511232146.GA10647@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <86k5vffjz8.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> <4644D554.5030706@uni-paderborn.de> <20070511232146.GA10647@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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At Sat, 12 May 2007 09:21:47 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > On 2007-May-11 22:43:00 +0200, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> wrote: > >I am. But I am a little bit how I should install FreeBSD on my Macbook. > >Using the 7.0 April snapshots, FreeBSD boots. but dies in sysinstall: > >BARF 170 > 171 (iirc) :( > > This is a geom error. There was a posting recently that geom can't > handle DOS-type filesystems with all spaces in the volume label - you > might be bumping into a similar problem. I'm not sure if you can see > or patch your volume label. Well, the EFI partition is msdosfs based, and while I don't know if it has spaces on the label, I'm running 7-CURRENT with "options GEOM_LABEL" just fine. Is it something that sysinstall triggers? -- Rui Paulo
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