Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:00:39 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install issues Message-ID: <5612D59D.4030000@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20151005173644.d3b9c5ce.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <5612938F.4080508@hiwaay.net> <20151005173644.d3b9c5ce.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 10/05/15 10:42, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:18:49 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> I am attempting to provision a new box w/ FreeBSD 9.3R, using a
>> customized USB drive w/ the default install media plus some scripts I
>> conjured up to expedite partitioning/slicing of HDD's. I plugged the USB
>> stick in & powered on. Though the UEFI BIOS gave my no options to
>> configure boot order, it did figure out that the USB stick was there &
>> bootable. I booted from that & the loading proceeded up to the regular
>> FreeBSD 'choose boot options' screen, w/ multi-user, single user, etc.
>> (6 choices total, w/ the ASCII-art logo). I let it go w/ option 1 (bad
>> choice :-) ? ) & it failed to get booted, but gave me a choice of boot
>> devices at the 'mountfs' (or some such) prompt.
> mountroot> :-)
>
> It's being presented by the kernel's root partition mounting
> mechanism (see sys/kern/vfs_mount.c).
>
>
>
>> I entered
>> 'ufs:/dev/da0s1a rw' & it proceeded to boot the installer.
> If I remember correctly, the boot process will mount root
> read-only, this is the default behaviour of single-user mode.
> That's why there is no "rw" option at this prompt; "rw" will
> therefore be ignored. Otherwise, the options from /etc/fstab
> would apply.
>
>
>
>> At 1st
>> prompt, i chose 'Shell' & dropped to the shell to run my utilities. The
>> 1st problem was that the USB media was mounted 'ro', *not* 'rw' as I
>> asked, making it tough to log what was going on to use in queries such
>> as this one when problems arose. My script completed down to an error in
>> an innocuous echo statement, but subsequent df revealed no customized
>> partitions visible for the install to proceed with, & little way to
>> discern what had happened, since everything scrolled past too fast & too
>> far to recover.
> The df command will only consider _mounted_ partitions. Check
> for the device nodes (and maybe labels) - if they are available,
> mount them, then use df.
>
> The command would be "mount -uw /", or "mount -u -o rw /".
>
> The ability to write to / maybe is the problem why no further
> partitions got mounted...?
>
>
>
>> I never found a magic key-stroke combo to page up in
>> console mode, so I am mostly in the dark.
> There is a nice little key, called "Scroll Lock", and it actually
> does what's printed on it: it locks the screen (cursor disappears)
> and you can use the vertical cursor keys and page keys to scroll
> up and down. Press the lock key again, and you can continue where
> you left the screen. Maybe the key is so old and so obvious that
> you didn't see it. :-)
>
> No, seriously: Scroll Lock isn't supported on many systems to
> work as it should. FreeBSD is an excellent exception here.
>
>
>
>> Is there a way to force the
>> booted root drive to be mounted 'rw' ?
> Probably you can do this with a custom entry in /etc/rc.local (if
> the boot image processes /etc/rc).
>
>
>
>
>
OK, I got past these 1st few (low) hurdles, now for some meatier issues:
For some reason, my script still didn't produce valid partitions/slices,
see attached, from I/O tee'ed out of the install process. I also attach
the script I am trying to use, see 2nd attachment. I did a few tinkers
durinstall, see commented out stuff, but I still wind up w/ no useful
partitions based on what is in /dev (no /dev/stripe or /dev/mirror
directory, never mind any entries there). I will add more echo's as
needed. I (thought I) copied most of the gpart commands & args, as well
as order, straight out of the online wiki, but maybe not.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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ada0 destroyed
ada1 destroyed
ada0 created
ada1 created
Progress so far (create -s mbr ada[0,1]):
=> 1 7575551 da0 MBR (3.6G)
1 32 - free - (16k)
33 7573500 1 freebsd [active] (3.6G)
7573533 2019 - free - (1M)
=> 0 7573500 da0s1 BSD (3.6G)
0 7573500 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6G)
=> 63 1953525105 ada0 MBR (931G)
63 1953525105 - free - (931G)
=> 63 1953525105 ada1 MBR (931G)
63 1953525105 - free - (931G)
ada0s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 4096 bytes
ada1s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 4096 bytes
Progress so far (add -t freebsd -a 4k ada[0,1]):
=> 1 7575551 da0 MBR (3.6G)
1 32 - free - (16k)
33 7573500 1 freebsd [active] (3.6G)
7573533 2019 - free - (1M)
=> 0 7573500 da0s1 BSD (3.6G)
0 7573500 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6G)
=> 63 1953525105 ada0 MBR (931G)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 1953524979 1 freebsd (931G)
1953525105 63 - free - (31k)
=> 63 1953525105 ada1 MBR (931G)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 1953524979 1 freebsd (931G)
1953525105 63 - free - (31k)
=> 0 1953524979 ada0s1 BSD (931G)
0 1953524979 - free - (931G)
=> 0 1953524979 ada1s1 BSD (931G)
0 1953524979 - free - (931G)
gpart: geom 'ada0s1': File exists
gpart: geom 'ada1s1': File exists
Progress so far (create -s bsd ada[0,1]s1):
=> 1 7575551 da0 MBR (3.6G)
1 32 - free - (16k)
33 7573500 1 freebsd [active] (3.6G)
7573533 2019 - free - (1M)
=> 0 7573500 da0s1 BSD (3.6G)
0 7573500 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6G)
=> 63 1953525105 ada0 MBR (931G)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 1953524979 1 freebsd (931G)
1953525105 63 - free - (31k)
=> 63 1953525105 ada1 MBR (931G)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 1953524979 1 freebsd (931G)
1953525105 63 - free - (31k)
=> 0 1953524979 ada0s1 BSD (931G)
0 1953524979 - free - (931G)
=> 0 1953524979 ada1s1 BSD (931G)
0 1953524979 - free - (931G)
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
gpart: Invalid argument
Progress so far (almost done):
=> 1 7575551 da0 MBR (3.6G)
1 32 - free - (16k)
33 7573500 1 freebsd [active] (3.6G)
7573533 2019 - free - (1M)
=> 0 7573500 da0s1 BSD (3.6G)
0 7573500 1 freebsd-ufs (3.6G)
=> 63 1953525105 ada0 MBR (931G)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 1953524979 1 freebsd (931G)
1953525105 63 - free - (31k)
=> 63 1953525105 ada1 MBR (931G)
63 63 - free - (31k)
126 1953524979 1 freebsd (931G)
1953525105 63 - free - (31k)
=> 0 1953524979 ada0s1 BSD (931G)
0 1953524979 - free - (931G)
=> 0 1953524979 ada1s1 BSD (931G)
0 1953524979 - free - (931G)
gmirror: Command 'load' not available.
gstripe: Command 'load' not available.
gmirror: Can't get informations about /dev/ada0s1a: No such file or directory.
gpart: No such geom: mirror/root.
gpart: arg0 'mirror/root': Invalid argument
gpart: No such geom: mirror/roots1.
newfs: /dev/mirror/root: could not find special device
mount: /dev/mirror/root: No such file or directory
gstripe: Can't get informations about /dev/ada0s1d: No such file or directory.
newfs: /dev/stripe/var: could not find special device
mount: /mnt/var: No such file or directory
gstripe: Can't get informations about /dev/ada0s1e: No such file or directory.
newfs: bad volume label. Valid characters are alphanumerics.
mkdir: /mnt/usr: No such file or directory
mount: /mnt/usr: No such file or directory
gstripe: Can't get informations about /dev/ada0s1f: No such file or directory.
newfs: /dev/stripe/home: could not find special device
mount: /mnt/home: No such file or directory
Now (IMPORTANT !!!!) type exit to return to the installer and installation will proceed.
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