Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:41:21 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEAD newfs/sysinstall issues Message-ID: <20090730104121.5f51e8b3@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4A70DEA5.6010406@haruhiism.net> References: <1248027417.14210.110.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20090729170601.GA2841@tafi.alm.flutnet.org> <4A709981.80600@FreeBSD.org> <200907291135.16470.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A70A9D8.4020701@FreeBSD.org> <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com> <4A70DEA5.6010406@haruhiism.net>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:43:33 +0400 Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net> wrote: > 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. > Just as an additional data point - I saw this problem also and was forced to blast the start of the disk using dd before I could install 8-BETA1. Games with fdisk and bsdlabel (using an existing 8-current install) didn't help at all. --- Gary Jennejohn
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