From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 17:13:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8851106566C for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:13:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588E28FC08 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk36 with SMTP id 36so16131566qyk.13 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:13:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=o/GESNMqYkc1slj0FH6tr+eveoX5ZpShPQd9cB3xIKE=; b=ueL/CVkNBBSKSL31td5w+UrqCv/VmyXUQCTpImP7J4SBTwiogseb27WBbQYBemLt9j +WUFr7TGEiRIhSuecy8VeXzMxFnSgaQkUQRPCUcyPcBpZs6WsXHx1+bLXZpN9jHLqZYt fizSf4Htnu9Wl/GQcJIpyuteqgpTHsVmaB8RA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=fQ0J+BEjFBt6amluFwlVl7PY0YRTyoItB8ylQsNSB/syBBOCqsLKxRQr04kgWJRBdI MSORLkXi0lzcpd6Sp2yeVFwkzxbt0xX+ZUG8XECI1jSCCgAC7JzxE60tclJsuizYBoH+ XG20g5HP3UkCj8T/8YsNV07SRqscGkFZSyM1c= Received: by 10.229.95.200 with SMTP id e8mr21221114qcn.213.1294334018539; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:13:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.88.9 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:13:08 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110106170246.00001f25@unknown> References: <20110106170246.00001f25@unknown> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300 Message-ID: To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:13:39 -0000 On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot > > use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems > > peculiar to this OS, somewhere. > > When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny message appear on the > > screen (see http://lix.in/-9b7e16 for an image). > > >From there I choose custom -> partition > Select the disk then enter > > partition editor. The cursor simply refuses to move from there, though > > keyboard is active. > > The problem is that geom has been extended with additional types (e.g. > glabel, gsched) that libdisk doesn't know about - so it gets confused. > > So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!