Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:45:25 -0500 From: "Jeff Gold" <jeff.gold@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: diskLabelCommit fails within a sysinstall script? Message-ID: <4bded9640802191245q20832a83j31723763ab21a940@mail.gmail.com>
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I am attempting to partition a disk non-interactively using
sysinstall, but I don't seem to be getting this right. I use the
following script on an 80G drive:
debug=true
ufs=/6.2-RELEASE
mediaSetUFS
disk=ad0
partition=all
bootManager=boot
diskPartitionEditor
diskPartitionWrite
ad0s1a=ufs 1048576 /
ad0s1b=swap 4194304 none
ad0s1d=ufs 2097152 /tmp
ad0s1e=ufs 16777216 /usr
ad0s1f=ufs 0 /var 1
diskLabelEditor
diskLabelCommit
shutdown
This runs without any evident error, but the relevant contents of /dev
change from just ad0 to ad0, ad0s1 and ad0s1c. The first two make
sense but ad0s1c is the only device I didn't request. None of the
ones I did seem to appear. A boot loader does seem to have been
installed but when I select "F1" for FreeBSD it says "Invalid
partition" and complains that there's "No /boot/loader" to be found.
So I guess the first stage got installed but not the next one?
Can anyone explain why this doesn't work? I skipped the 'c' partition
because that's what sysinstall wants to do when I run it
interactively, but renaming the devices to include the 'c' makes no
difference. There is still an s1c and nothing else. Also, I tried
the syntax in the man page (ad0s1-1 instead of ad0s1a) but that --
perversely -- gives me a bunch of errors about being unable to mount
partitions with the other style names.
Jeff
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