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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD 8.4 in bhyve
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On Thursday, April 10, 2014 2:09:30 pm Steve Wills wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.4 in bhyve, but running into some issues.
> Sysinstall doesn't seem to like the disk. In the partition editor, I get:
> 
> Disk name:      vtbd1                                  FDISK Partition Editor
> DISK Geometry:  0 cyls/0 heads/0 sectors = 0 sectors (0MB)
> 
> Offset       Size(ST)        End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype    Flags
> 
>          0  209715200  209715199        -     12     unused        0          
> 
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? This is using the 8.4 Release disc1 iso on
> 11-CURRENT r264056. I'm using virtio-blk for both the cd and hd. Should this be
> working?

I resorted to using the LiveCD to install by hand using the ZFSOnRoot
instructions as a guideline.

-- 
John Baldwin