On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, "Brian McCann" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb > drive, but every time I try it fails. sysinstall says "Unable to make > new root filesystem on /dev/da0s1a1. Command returned status 38". > When I switch to the debug console, I get "cg 0: bad magic number". > This thumb drive was being used on my Windows machine previously, then > I re-formatted it as UFS to use it on a FreeBSD machine...so I know > the thumb drive itself works. Can someone shed some light on this > problem?
I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the thumb drive (such as it was a new "disk" right from the factory) and let sysinstall put slice and partitions onto it. Furthermore, I think /dev/da0s1a1 looks a bit strange. Shouldn't it be /dev/da0s1a (without the 1) for the root partition? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
