From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 29 23:43:32 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 0429F106566C for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:43:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spambox@haruhiism.net) Received: from fujibayashi.jp (karas.fujibayashi.jp [77.221.159.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7138FC1B for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:43:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spambox@haruhiism.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [91.122.47.189]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fujibayashi.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BAF6F78FB8; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:43:29 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <4A70DEA5.6010406@haruhiism.net> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:43:33 +0400 From: Kamigishi Rei User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barrett Lyon 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> <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com> In-Reply-To: <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 23:43:32 -0000 Barrett Lyon wrote: > 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? Could you please provide the output of: fdisk /dev/ad0 and bsdlabel /dev/ad0sX where X is the FreeBSD slice? This can be done from fixit, f.ex. -- Kamigishi Rei KREI-RIPE