From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 22:47:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A5C106564A for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 22:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72ACE8FC15 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 22:47:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws12 with SMTP id 12so624260vws.13 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:47:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8wnXkFiSBveWh1CKwLkGeNK9MBJmts75H8gUd+x/lOk=; b=o2dufR9ex1N0dcuk6+t81FLMEW1si+W6/imi8nndeaoVySLjul4gzteNzNWj2KbRVq /l6pSKBtGVUzeWeniGKc9QAXthiXoVxP/fPZA6VakPDmgxlzDEEBlD30d9yp1ilwVRcJ V0NLAr9vcgmEvdIGBbD+ZcUe9cysYTsHSP3Qg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RwQognFEHo/G5cVUF8HR6PXJ1KXH6ZHqpruy2JDZdLD3k7u3YIrTWXPCThjqWOfs7R lsm2eHv7lSF5boaXuwxaa/lt26anlfdO4j5ut5yAUPpDrhUznWM0TMSECkX7H7Ft+R5k 0S96eipZ/R9RPgHzEsY62dtdjZqcGFoG2izbY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.219.3 with SMTP id hs3mr2478496qcb.153.1275000470265; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.190.83 with HTTP; Thu, 27 May 2010 15:47:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100527223607.GC82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> References: <20100527220241.GA82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> <20100527223607.GC82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:47:50 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: rick-freebsd2009@kiwi-computer.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting useful diagnostics from geom(8) and friends X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 22:47:51 -0000 On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Rick C. Petty 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