From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 30 08:41:24 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 CA9CC10656C1 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout4.freenet.de (mout4.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F62F8FC22 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.21] (helo=11.mx.freenet.de) by mout4.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #92) id 1MWRCV-0007NG-4G for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:41:23 +0200 Received: from tef14.t.pppool.de ([89.55.239.20]:11145 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 11.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #93) id 1MWRCU-00068C-Cp for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:41:23 +0200 Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:41:21 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A70A9D8.4020701@FreeBSD.org> <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com> <4A70DEA5.6010406@haruhiism.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.2; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: 149285::1248943282-0000636C-50595AFF/0-0/0-0 Subject: Re: HEAD newfs/sysinstall issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:41:25 -0000 On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:43:33 +0400 Kamigishi Rei 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