Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Yes, ad0s1b is the swap, but I think it fails before doing newfs. >> "Writing partition information to ad0" is the last message I see before >> the error occurs, no newfs popups occur.
By the way, in the fixit console /dev has ad0b but not ad0s1b. > Can you get this disk into a system (or the same system if booting off > CD, etc.) where you can do the following to it and then retry the > installation? > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 > > No, this isn't a joke. This should also clear up the GEOM label > error/warning you see. Yay, that did the trick. I installed 8.0 into a usb flash and cleaned ad0 from there. The setup successfully created the filesystems and is copying files right now. Thank you! I hope that sysinstall will be able to recognize this situation in future releases. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
