From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 1 12:30:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A55537B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:30:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D985F43E9C for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA1KUa9d048997; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 21:30:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Michael Richards" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall alpha problems... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:51:16 EST." <3DC2DB34.00002D.94781@ns.interchange.ca> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 21:30:36 +0100 Message-ID: <48996.1036182636@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3DC2DB34.00002D.94781@ns.interchange.ca>, "Michael Richards" writes : > >--------------Boundary-00=_GTXW0ZNZ5BZNTT4D7TH0 >Content-Type: Text/Plain >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >> Ok, first make sure that your machine is running a -current >> kernel. 1st thing: Make sure you have removed the NO_GEOM option from your kernel config, sysinstall/libdisk only works with GEOM kernels. if that is not it: 2nd OK, now we'll get tough :-) cd /usr/src/lib/libdisk make tst01 echo quit | /usr/obj/`pwd`/tst01 $DISK where $DISK is the name of your disks (ie: "ad0", "da0" etc etc) This will show you what the libdisk library thinks about your disks. I'd like to see the output, along with the output from: sysctl -n kern.geom.conftxt -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message