Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 11:22:35 +0400 (MSD) From: Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru> To: Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MacBook patches Message-ID: <20070512110921.I1135@free.home.local> 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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On Sat, 12 May 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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. You can see geom configuration that libdisk tries to parse, that should be sufficient to find why it fails. Arne, can you try to run sysctl -b kern.geom.conftxt from "live cd" fixit shell and look for lines with double spaces? Yuriy.
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