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Date:      Sat, 12 May 2007 11:22:35 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
To:        Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MacBook patches
Message-ID:  <20070512110921.I1135@free.home.local>
In-Reply-To: <20070511232146.GA10647@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <86k5vffjz8.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> <4644D554.5030706@uni-paderborn.de> <20070511232146.GA10647@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Sat, 12 May 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On 2007-May-11 22:43:00 +0200, Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
>> I am. But I am a little bit how I should install FreeBSD on my Macbook.
>> Using the 7.0 April snapshots, FreeBSD boots. but dies in sysinstall:
>> BARF 170 > 171 (iirc) :(
>
> This is a geom error.  There was a posting recently that geom can't
> handle DOS-type filesystems with all spaces in the volume label - you
> might be bumping into a similar problem.  I'm not sure if you can see
> or patch your volume label.
You can see geom configuration that libdisk tries to parse, that should be 
sufficient to find why it fails.

Arne, can you try to run
sysctl -b kern.geom.conftxt
from "live cd" fixit shell and look for lines with double spaces?

Yuriy.




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