On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> fdisk -s ad4
> bsdlabel ad4s1
[r...@blackdragon /usr/src]# fdisk -s ad4; bsdlabel ad4s1
/dev/ad4: 1453521 cyl 16 hd 63 sec
PartStartSize Type Flags
1: 63 1465149105 0xa5 0x80
# /dev/ad4s1:
8 partitions:
#s
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 21:41:11 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
>
> > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for
> > installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs
> > commands if you want). I found I ha
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> destroy -F is supposed to mean "Forced destroying of the partition table
> even if it is not empty." But compare to this thread on the forum earlier
> today: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20731
>
> Maybe -F isn't quite as bruta
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote:
Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise,
but Chris will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bruce Cran wrote:
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for
> installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs
> commands if you want). I found I had to copy the base and kernel
> directories from the install ISO to a U
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:54:32 -0500
Chris Brennan wrote:
> Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a
> manual install of just base? if I can get the system installed at
> this point then all should be good when I reboot.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise, but Chris
>> will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they're
>> out there.
>>
>
> Aha!
> http://www.wonkity.c
>
> > If you google the error message in the OP, the first result is:
>> >
>> > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1675
>>
>>
> I read this, while that PR Reporter claims the same error message, the
> conditions in which s/he gets it _are not_ the same conditions in which I am
> getting
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>
>> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in
>> this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to
>> help somebody get the OS installed is abou
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in
> this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to
> help somebody get the OS installed is about as basic as it gets for me;
> I'd be hugely relieved if som
GMail threadding don't fail me now!
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:
> This is a pretty easy problem to replicate if you are pressing W, and that
> "issue" has existed for quite some time. If you press W then Q at
> sysinstall fdisk then attempt to force write disklabel scr
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote:
Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise, but
Chris will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that
himself, they're out there.
Aha! http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
May/may not be helpful, but the pr
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:
> I see now the SD Card was not the install target, but regarding the the
> original point to OP was able to preform other normal operations on the card
> eg different FS.
>
> I don't really think the OP was pressing W initially which is why I
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>
>> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in
>> this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to
>> help somebody get the OS installed is abou
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in
> this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to
> help somebody get the OS installed is about as basic as it gets for me;
> I'd be hugely relieved if some
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote
>
> > Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62
> > are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you
> > used 'W' to write anyway; can't say for sur
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:11:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST)
> Ian Smith wrote:
>
> > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again;
> > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed
> > on 8.2 (Bruce?) so I sugge
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Ian Smith wrote
> Your dd of the first 71 sectors looked right, MBR looks ok, sectors 1-62
> are zeroes, boot1 and boot2 from sector 63-70 seem normal, after you
> used 'W' to write anyway; can't say for sure that the bsdlabel is ok,
> but see no reason to suppose
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST)
Ian Smith wrote:
> Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again;
> I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed
> on 8.2 (Bruce?) so I suggest allocating the BSD partitioning you
> really want.
I've not fixed a
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> >
> > Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what
> > should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 oseek=146
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> Saw Chris' later message that -F isn't there for him, but here's what
> should be, on the data, the sure-fire way to clobber that last sector:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 oseek=1465149167
>
> which command SHOULD report just 512 bytes wri
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> > > [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit ..]
> > >
> >
>
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
>>> [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit ..]
>>>
>>>
>> Trimm
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
[.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit ..]
Trimmings! Oh nevermind. I don't know what possessed me to go and look
at the d
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> [.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit ..]
>
Trimmings! Oh nevermind. I don't know what possessed me to go and look
at the debug window. But I do and I see the follo
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:31:17 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
[.. trimming ccs, selectively quoting and de-gmailing a bit ..]
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Michael Powell
> wrote:
> > No. I used the of=/dev/ad4 as described above. However, I think you've hit
> > the nail on the head on one aspe
I was not around the computer yesterday to reply to these in a timely matter
and replying to each one just got confusing since gmail appends all of my
replies to the bottom of the thread and not after the person I replied to. I
got the reply header to each person and went that route
| Reply header
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 skip=N
>
> where N is the known total number of sectors minus 34, should do it?
Argh .. that should be seek=N, not skip. Up way too late ..
cheers, Ian
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:22:55 +, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:13:57 -0500
> Chris Brennan wrote:
>
> > No worries on missing it, I'm not sure that helped, I farted around
> > with it again earlier today with little more in the way of success.
> > What I tried was to just set
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:13:57 -0500
Chris Brennan wrote:
> No worries on missing it, I'm not sure that helped, I farted around
> with it again earlier today with little more in the way of success.
> What I tried was to just set up '/' and swamp and it still prompted
> me about not being able to fi
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:39:13 -0500
Michael Powell wrote:
> "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev! The creation of
> filesystems will be aborted." Then pressing "OK" brings this:
> "Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting."
>
> This from sysinstall and occurs after fdisk, labe
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:15:35 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith wrote:
[..]
> > The bsdlabel lives in sector 1 (counting from 0) of the slice concerned,
> > specifically the first 0x114 (276d) bytes, in the second sector of the
> > boot blocks. As noted a
Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell
> wrote:
[snip]
> > > >
> > > > > Try zeroing out the mbr:
> > > > >
> > > > > Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do:
> > > > >
> > > > > sysctl ker
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Ian Smith wrote:
> Well, what's commonly called 'the partition table' is bytes 0x1be-1ff of
> the MBR, so I was confused by your writing to sector 1 rather than 0,
> but have a new theory to test, seeing Chris isn't making any progress;
> this maybe a victim of th
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Chris Brennan wrote:
> I have a 2GB MicroSD card that I am going to toss 8.2BETA1 on, hopefully
> later today and see where that gets me.
>
2GB MicroSD card was a bust, use a 60GB hard-drive and wrote the image to
that, it booted it just fine, but the install fai
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 10, Message: 23
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:37:10 -0500 Michael Powell
wrote:
> Ian Smith wrote:
>
> > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2
>
> Yes - true enough. Was thinking partition table and typed 'mbr'.
>
>
It's all good, I got the cmd right in the end, but alas, it helped me not!
> > Mmm .. it's not clear from Chris' original message exactly what he did.
>
>
I clarified that in a subsequent reply with considerably more detail
Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Try zeroing out the mbr:
> > >
> > > Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Ian Smith wrote:
> Goodo. I'll try chopping a bit too ..
>
Cleaning out my cruft, leaving only yours :D
> Assuming that's 'oseek=0', which is the default anyway.
>
yes, a typo in my e-mail only, I got the cmd right in the installer.
> Fair enough. 'what B
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:17:48 -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> > I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many
> > slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you
> > partitioned the FreeBSD sli
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> I don't expect this to be anything like that. Please show a) how many
> slices you allocated and how big this FreeBSD slice is and b) how you
> partitioned the FreeBSD slice into (and sizes of) / /var/ /usr [/tmp?]
> and especially swap.
>
> I
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell
> wrote:
>
> > Try zeroing out the mbr:
> >
> > Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do:
> >
> > sysctl kern.geom.debugf
On 12/28/10 16:02, Chris Brennan wrote:
Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do:
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1
where x equals your drive number. This will zero out any old MBR.
[..]
Invalid partition tableError loading operating s
Chris Brennan wrote:
> ... could this be the fact that this is a really large
> drive and the bios is 'freaking' out (for lack of a better
> term) and not properly presenting the disk to the system? ...
> The disk is a different spindle-speed then the old one.
>
> [..]
> 250G -> 5400RPM
> 750G ->
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell wrote:
> Try zeroing out the mbr:
>
> Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do:
>
> sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1
>
> where x equals your drive number. This will zero out any old MBR.
>
Chris Brennan wrote:
> I've got an HP Business Class laptop (dv2700) and the original 250G SATAII
> drive is going bad. So I bought a new drive, got a great deal on an SATAII
> 750G drive for it, bios sees the drive fine. The old drive had
> FBSD8.2/amd64 installed and it ran fine. I wanted to rei
I've got an HP Business Class laptop (dv2700) and the original 250G SATAII
drive is going bad. So I bought a new drive, got a great deal on an SATAII
750G drive for it, bios sees the drive fine. The old drive had FBSD8.2/amd64
installed and it ran fine. I wanted to reinstall to make some partition
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