Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:25:08 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug in bsdinstall (fs found where not present) Message-ID: <521FBC34.4070604@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308291457070.89501@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308291457070.89501@wonkity.com>
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On 08/29/13 14:04, Warren Block wrote: >> From a 9.2-PRERELEASE snapshot, go into the shell, create a GPT disk > layout with a bunch of partitions for filesystems and swap. Exit the > shell and run the installer. > > Go through each partition setting a mount point. Tell bsdinstall to > continue. It reports that the / partition has a preexisting > filesystem (it does not, in fact; this disk had a mishmash of MBR and > NTFS on it). > > Tell bsdinstall to continue anyway. It does, and then reports that it > can't mount /dev/ada0p2 on /mnt, presumably because, contrary to the > misleading and incorrect error message, there is no filesystem on there. > > The install fails, try again, entering all the mount points, and it > will fail the same. > > Short term solution: newfs the / partition, so there really is a > filesystem there for bsdinstall to detect and warn about. Then it works. bsdinstall has no way to detect whether or not you already have UFS in a freebsd-ufs file system. It assumes, when not given contrary information, that a partition that exists is initialized. There does not seem to be a way around this. If you have any ideas, those would of course be helpful. -Nathan
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