From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 30 18:23:19 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 1C9DD106564A for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f196.google.com (mail-px0-f196.google.com [209.85.216.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF9078FC0A for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: by pxi34 with SMTP id 34so2565368pxi.3 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:23:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=cs5xjeZPFIy/mKp06u1VZW8ZB/haer2jcxkZqJCHgVY=; b=g/zMxYKKHIKN+HVHPEXuFS787KdpeeTXSZb3Cm/dTbeXBliumGaKN2LyFxsdgG1Xys CfmMVbHPa4H/N0rwB/1ZJenb0K1br+zYuOXfAjMtW+XgcDNbDhkCyUAsIFllcCagnP7U n1FaCu4clrwvLIWEyweaRDxrxydNzNZ0XY7Ec= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=vcD8YZJKtGFgkK1AC1N4bjYWQErGlUYtwu5XBTUadVcQEWfO/S7z54Tdj639scZKvU UpbrBsn4xISy6eSvJM95TUaWNjqOHSOa7AqPesDSVXQe6xkInjxQWpSBntRCTx3yf2Uv Igzw9zqg4V+hlasRxcT/8NRiWVi2bbJZ6Db6k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.193.9 with SMTP id q9mr1132942rvf.70.1248978198649; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:23:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com> 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> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:23:18 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 81c7a617d3fc8126 Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Barrett Lyon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:19 -0000 On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, 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? > > -B > Are you using dedicated disks? -- randi