Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 21:14:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jin Guojun <jguojun@sbcglobal.net> To: Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/164399: 9.0 installer failures Message-ID: <1328591649.84868.YahooMailClassic@web82203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <E92A9F87-589B-495B-B17E-EF4EFEC8F17B@fisglobal.com>
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--- On Sat, 2/4/12, Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> wrote: snapped ... > In FreeBSD 9, FDISK partition tables can be read and written using the "fdisk" utility, BUT... > If the disk has a GPT partition table, the device-nodes in /dev associated with the FDISK partition table ***will not be created*** until you destroy the GPT scheme (using "gpart destroy"). > This correctly implies that you cannot simultaneously use GPT and FDISK within FreeBSD 9 on the same disk, it's one or the other. I assume this implies a bug for 9.0 installer because 6.4-R has not such problem. If so, hopefully it can be fixed in 8.3 and 9.1 in next release; otherwise, new FreeBSD cannot co-exist with other OS on the same disk drive. >> PS: The 9.0 seems preparing installation and partitioning the disk like >> Linux. This is no longer a BSD style :-( > > You're not alone. Many of us dislike the "everything on one big root" too. It's not safe (e.g., filling "/tmp" fills boot partition), and it's not BSD style. > > If you'd like to install FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE with the old style partitioning, please try my custom installer that uses the old sysinstall(8) (versus new bsdinstall(8)) installer: > > http://druidbsd.sf.net/ > > Instructions here: > > http://druidbsd.sf.net/freebsd_druid.shtml > > NOTE: However, since you've written GPT layout to disk, you'll have to clear that before you can use sysinstall(8). No bother, just boot into the installer and then press Alt+F4 to go to the "holo shell" where you type first "rescue" (hit ENTER) and then "gpart destroy DISKNAME" (where DISKNAME is something like "ada0" -- use "sysctl kern.disks" to list disks available). Unfortunately, gaprt destroy does not work. "ls -l" shows that /dev/ad0 is a symlike to /dev/ada0, howevr, "gpart destroy ada0" returns Invalid argument error: gpart: arg0 'ada0': Invalid argument and "gpart destroy /dev/ada0" returns the same error. "gpart list -a" and "gpart show" does not output any thing. Installer sees ada0 as an entire disk. This looks like a GPT utility tool problem, doesn't it?home | help
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