Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 01:38:53 -0600 From: "Clay Daniels Jr." <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD-12.0 Install: mountroot> ? Message-ID: <CAGLDxTWo2Qngfid__s6P9Q6wG8nB9H=BaQHaGmU99HpKszpqyw@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Trying to install FreeBSD. It boots to the USB image, and gets through the
first two pages that are shown in the Handbook. Then it tries to locate the
partition to install to, and give me the mountroot> prompt. If I enter "?"
it gives me a list of partitions from ada0p1 to ada0p9.
This is what the current partition looks like in my Fedora bash shell
terminal:
cgdisk 1.0.4
Disk Drive: sda
Size: 976773168, 465.8 GiB
Part. # Size Partition Type Partition Name
----------------------------------------------------------------
1007.0 KiB free space
1 1023.0 MiB Windows RE Ba
2 360.0 MiB EFI System EFI System Partition
3 128.0 MiB Microsoft reserved Mi
4 192.0 GiB Microsoft basic data Ba
5 128.0 GiB FreeBSD UFS Basic data partition
156.0 MiB free space
6 1024.0 MiB Linux filesystem Fedora Linux
7 127.0 GiB Unknown Fedora Linux
8 450.0 MiB Windows RE
9 15.7 GiB Microsoft basic data Ba
5.0 MiB free space
As you see, partition 5 is my target, so I enter:
mountroot> ufs:/dev/ada0p5
I get the message "failed with error 2 (unknown filetype system)"
Am I making a mistake to pre-format my FreeBSD partiton? I also tried
leaving it as blank space, but then there is no partition to target for the
install.
Also, I wonder if I don't have some GPT vs MBR problem:
[root@pavilion-23-attlocal-net dev]# gdisk sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.4
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Any clues would be appreciated.
Clay Daniels
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAGLDxTWo2Qngfid__s6P9Q6wG8nB9H=BaQHaGmU99HpKszpqyw>