From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Thu May 19 22:11:24 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBA6B42A23; Thu, 19 May 2016 22:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ecsd@transbay.net) Received: from transbay.net (transbay.net [64.201.242.180]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.transbay.net", Issuer "mail.transbay.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FED812FC; Thu, 19 May 2016 22:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ecsd@transbay.net) Received: from [10.10.10.176] (ecsd.transbay.net [208.76.28.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by transbay.net (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id u4JMBFI9037067 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 19 May 2016 15:11:17 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Eric Dynamic Subject: Common installation errors? Message-ID: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 15:11:14 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 22:11:24 -0000 I'm trying to install 10.3 amd64. When I get to the "allocate disk space" and say "auto (guided)" using a Seagate 250 GB disk that was previously used for Ubuntu, each choice GPT, BSD, MBR fails with the same error message something like "bad geom: ada0". Either a different disk will work, or I need to step back to 10.1, so I try a Seagate 80 GB disk (also with an Ubuntu system using the whole disk) and this time despite some complaint that flies by, the disk space allocation works and I can proceed with the install. I cannot find any reference to "bad geom: " in a few cursory searches, but the place to discuss such an error message is in the installation manual, which is currently written mostly as if most steps will not go wrong. Surely whatever complaint the system had about "bad geom" was something trivial, or hopefully correctable, since presumably BSD supports 250 GB .. 3 or 5 TB disks by now; 10.1 supported install on a 1 TB drive. May I suggest adding documentation for such common "gotchas" to the installation manual? Then the installation manual is a one-stop shop. Meanwhile, if anyone can tell me what "bad geom: ada0" meant, I'd appreciate it, thanks. -ecsd (Eric Dynamic) Berkeley