From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 20 10:38:30 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 89FC4B438A8 for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 10:38:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-io0-x22a.google.com (mail-io0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A815173E for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 10:38:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: by mail-io0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id t40so48754658ioi.0 for ; Fri, 20 May 2016 03:38:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=my-gd.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc; bh=EmlFsrPTAIi/KA9nQgDyKWrOCVWDFDwm2+s/KaK6NwA=; b=DblL5EigIzdNzYbjK4aL7xN7xh8BBZzkOEd3qkXQBH/mmPtPJuDQT05kWHMwHhjBGm q76dFbUeRgzMAS4NvsXEvI08AQ+vjKcAGgDw54A8Q+QHZykwGy6qRibm7jHYiK37Lco6 fuAtgCiHpz9kHCxSDsb9E1ohKTD17C/gtc659SrVxzU1FlDQNBd46OGPxsxAryEPI+YF F8dCJtxxdNqdzmNLf7dV3Oz741IatOVHiOq2tlaIUKwAhtp94IbiKemOGKaEIbeTr9XF WGDkWHo/zIx8FK3nKPbQJwj8T7B4cfEfqLayBhTBLS6B8fpp7hdxe0DfIINL1iKx5+Xb R09A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc; bh=EmlFsrPTAIi/KA9nQgDyKWrOCVWDFDwm2+s/KaK6NwA=; b=eG2ez0+DPqw5lCZtjuR8NwvnEF8wfKORt9e839vfB6foaeUUw29CoUxfrv0OsQe96t vCJD7rl5mAjxs51qUMeXmSTXC+N1tjLz17utR4X8NRhAYe6YLH+J00l9kaz1mqfP7kmc vfRlQvduUbeTuqjXC021yVMv1cqzCLOGCfeBv33FD9l2RKkMcGOFWSh/rZI5K4mAihQY GACLyec5qP0HawcXNnwhj3fV0Hupz/c9mDCg82riVqw+JbKKL5JTO4NXVM5+3VMdGSrw Drqb1xA2GtOZcHh776IxvCoFK5fOYu3jROQMvvAA/r+1UL0ZBqtY2AQczWRDaDb9tuBN F8pw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FVQ4I0DRMdFZETc95aLZbaxMs0rgCpuQAKgXZFiAxDlkfqH+v9ibkpMpPNSL/aTSHk2Dak/Fk00HkC4TA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.130.71 with SMTP id e68mr2543257iod.175.1463740709293; Fri, 20 May 2016 03:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.79.124.93 with HTTP; Fri, 20 May 2016 03:38:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net> References: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 12:38:29 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Common installation errors? From: Damien Fleuriot To: Eric Dynamic Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:38:30 -0000 On 20 May 2016 at 00:11, 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 > I would assume it means gpart didn't like your drive or its existing partitions. Would you, perchance, be able to drop to a shell and issue the following ? # gpart show Here is example output from one of my firewalls : root@pf1-gs:~ # gpart show => 34 142081981 mfid0 GPT (68G) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4194466 137887549 3 freebsd-ufs (66G) You may then remove existing partitions (DATA DESTROYED) : gpart delete -i For example : gpart delete -i 3 ada0 Once you have removed all partitions, you can destroy the existing GEOM : gpart destroy ada0 I understand this doesn't fix the installer issue, but at least it should let you move forward :)