Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:47:50 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: rick-freebsd2009@kiwi-computer.com Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting useful diagnostics from geom(8) and friends Message-ID: <AANLkTinaGs2bQlAv7BLy96B4SDc0mv4J4lqS78Zg_RRs@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100527223607.GC82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> References: <AANLkTimg6CKc0RTNpd-0oI5MegjVPd0eiS5pQCj-chvV@mail.gmail.com> <20100527220241.GA82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> <AANLkTinRhDF2XmyvvbqlhtP2gwsnOiOxv-mKTCAx4feb@mail.gmail.com> <20100527223607.GC82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com>
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Rick C. Petty <rick-freebsd2009@kiwi-computer.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:25:07PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Rick C. Petty >> > >> > I'm not sure what you're doing wrong. =A0Do the following steps work? >> > >> > % gpart create -s MBR /dev/ad4 >> > % gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad4 >> > % gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd /dev/ad4 >> > % gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/ad0 >> >> I didn't run #4 (don't want gptboot on the appliance), but all of the >> steps failed. > > Then how do you boot into FreeBSD? =A0You need to install the boot blocks= or > the loader(8) won't boot. We netboot :). >> fdisk doesn't like these Western Digital drives for some whacky reason >> when I specify fdisk -BIq /dev/ad4, etc... and only after I go in and > > What exactly do you mean by "doesn't like"? Sorry... should have included that detail... it's an on-and-off issue where sometimes the drives do properly slice themselves and sometimes they don't. Not sure why it's so twitchy... %fdisk -BIq /dev/ad4 ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found %ls /dev/ad4* /dev/ad4 /dev/ad4s1 -Garrett
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