Hello Steven, The first time no.
But, it is possible (zfs to be automatically imported). After that I did a ZFS installation and this time it worked supporting your theory. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not with UFS - I did not figure out the logic. Regards, Anton On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > Hi Anton, > > I have another question about your kfreebsd-9 install within VirtualBox > last week. > >> update-dev: warning: unable to find udevadm; skipping >> partman: mkfs.ufs: /dev/ada0s1: failed to open disk for writing > > Was the Virtualbox IDE disk blank? Or had anything been installed to it > previously? > > Most crucially, a pre-existing ZFS physical volume might cause this > problem (it seems to be automatically imported, meaning the partition > itself would be 'in use' and even the partition table cannot be modified > if this happens). > > Thanks, > Regards, > -- > Steven Chamberlain > ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG3TGCMWPg-aZNT5YUP-jmN1vN3HuD41LuocqgGc=-okk4i...@mail.gmail.com