From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 12 20:27:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A6D37B536 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:27:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichman@twcny.rr.com) Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.81]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:23:56 -0400 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com ([24.92.226.74]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:26:26 -0400 Received: from twcny.rr.com ([24.95.188.77]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:26:21 -0400 Message-ID: <39457294.F0F79C1@twcny.rr.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:30:28 +0000 From: "Mark S. Reichman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Burden Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: formatting/partitioning a new disk drive References: <200005300044.TAA31295@sullivan.realtime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you issue the 'w' command for 'write changes' while in the partition editor? I also agree that this should be one big partition. No need, that I can see, to do all of this partitioning. Bruce Burden wrote: > > Okay, everybody agrees that /stand/sysinstall is the way to partition > and label a new disk driver. Okay, fine. Do all of that. The partition > works fine. The labeling part, however, is another story: > > Error mounting /dev/da1s1b on /home2 : Invalid argument > Error mounting /dev/da1s1d on /home3 : Invalid argument > Error mounting /dev/da1s1a on /new/ports : Invalid argument > Error mounting /dev/da1s1e on /new/root : Invalid argument > Error mounting /dev/da1s1h on /new/src : Invalid argument > Error mounting /dev/da1s1g on /new/usr : Invalid argument > Error mounting /dev/da1s1f on /new/var : Invalid argument > > Disk: da1 Partition name: da1s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs > ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- > da1s1e /new/root 100MB UFS Y > da1s1f /new/var 100MB UFS Y > da1s1g /new/usr 1000MB UFS Y > da1s1h /new/src 1000MB UFS Y > da1s1a /new/ports 1000MB UFS Y > da1s1b /home2 7000MB UFS Y > da1s1d /home3 7318MB UFS Y > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > da1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da1: 17519MB (35879135 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 17519C) > cd1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > cd1: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device > cd1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) > cd1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - tray closed > da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da0: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 8683C) > > Okay, what the hell is going on here? I have been fighting > with this damn thing all day, and I am just a bit annoyed. > > The problem appears to be: > > bash-2.04# mount /dev/da1s1a /new/root > mount: /dev/da1s1a on /new/root: incorrect super block > > because apparently, /stand/sysinstall did NOT bother to create the slices? > > Bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message