From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Thu May 19 22:13:12 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 F309BB42C14 for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 22:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from mx1.scaleengine.net (mx1.scaleengine.net [209.51.186.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FAE172F for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 22:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allanjude@freebsd.org) Received: from [10.1.1.2] (unknown [10.1.1.2]) (Authenticated sender: allanjude.freebsd@scaleengine.com) by mx1.scaleengine.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC399DC2E for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 22:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Common installation errors? To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net> From: Allan Jude Message-ID: <573E3A71.3020809@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 18:13:05 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 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 22:13:13 -0000 On 2016-05-19 18:11, Eric Dynamic wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" If you switch to the shell console (control+alt+f4), you should be able to destroy the old partition table: gpart destroy -F ada0 And then create a new one. I am not sure what is wrong with the old one. If you would like to try to figure it out: gpart show ada0 gpart backup ada0 And provide those for us to look at. -- Allan Jude