Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Nicholas Mills
Excellent, I'm glad everything worked out. It may have been a leftover secondary GPT. From g_part_gpt.c: /* No primary? Check that there's a secondary. */ buf = g_read_data(cp, pp->mediasize - pp->sectorsize, pp->sectorsize, &error); This would seem to suggest that the secondary GPT is stored in

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Costlow
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:17:50PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Mark Costlow <[1]che...@swcp.com> >wrote: > > I hope this question isn't too stupid. > Any hints or clue-by-fours? > >What's the output of 'gpart show'? Zeroing the whole d

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Costlow
Nick, that worked! I zero'd the whole disk, then everything worked like normal. Thanks, Mark On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:15:13PM -0600, Mark Costlow wrote: > Since I don't have any other ideas yet, I'll give that a try. I'll > let you know if it works tomorrow if it has finished by then :-) >

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Mark Costlow wrote: > I hope this question isn't too stupid. > > Any hints or clue-by-fours? > > What's the output of 'gpart show'? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Costlow
Since I don't have any other ideas yet, I'll give that a try. I'll let you know if it works tomorrow if it has finished by then :-) Mark On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Nicholas Mills wrote: >Mark, >I'm certainly no expert, but I think I can point you in the right >directio

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Nicholas Mills
Mark, I'm certainly no expert, but I think I can point you in the right direction. The system appears to be attempting to read from a GPT stored on the disk from when you used it on Linux. I'm not sure of the specifics, but I do know that some GPT info is stored near the end of the drive. The easy

Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Costlow
I hope this question isn't too stupid. I have a machine with a 3Ware RAID card, with 4 SATA drives attached. 2 drives are 250GB in a RAID1 volume, and act as the boot disk with a standard freebsd partiction map (/, /var, /usr, and swap on this disk). The other 2 drives are 1TB in a RAID1 volume,