From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 29 23:02:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C2D1065672 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:02:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from blyon@blyon.com) Received: from blyon.com (blyon.com [63.236.138.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47778FC0C for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:02:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from blyon@blyon.com) Received: from labfi.lab1.blyon.com ([74.115.26.30] helo=[10.0.1.2]) by blyon.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MWHbH-000OU1-7y for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:26:19 -0700 Message-Id: <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com> From: Barrett Lyon To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4A70A9D8.4020701@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:26:18 -0700 References: <1248027417.14210.110.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20090729170601.GA2841@tafi.alm.flutnet.org> <4A709981.80600@FreeBSD.org> <200907291135.16470.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A70A9D8.4020701@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) Subject: HEAD newfs/sysinstall issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:02:18 -0000 I've been trying to get the current HEAD snapshot installed on an amd64 box that had some screwed up disk geometry from a previous install. When sysinstall runs newfs it complains that it's unable to locate the /dev/ad0x (replace x with whatever it was trying to newfs). Seems like the partition does get created but does not become visible in /dev 7.X works fine. Any ideas? -B