Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 15:11:14 -0700 From: Eric Dynamic <ecsd@transbay.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Common installation errors? Message-ID: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net>
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I'm trying to install 10.3 amd64. When I get to the "allocate disk space" and say "auto (guided)" using a Seagate 250 GB disk that was previously used for Ubuntu, each choice GPT, BSD, MBR fails with the same error message something like "bad geom: ada0". Either a different disk will work, or I need to step back to 10.1, so I try a Seagate 80 GB disk (also with an Ubuntu system using the whole disk) and this time despite some complaint that flies by, the disk space allocation works and I can proceed with the install. I cannot find any reference to "bad geom: <device name>" in a few cursory searches, but the place to discuss such an error message is in the installation manual, which is currently written mostly as if most steps will not go wrong. Surely whatever complaint the system had about "bad geom" was something trivial, or hopefully correctable, since presumably BSD supports 250 GB .. 3 or 5 TB disks by now; 10.1 supported install on a 1 TB drive. May I suggest adding documentation for such common "gotchas" to the installation manual? Then the installation manual is a one-stop shop. Meanwhile, if anyone can tell me what "bad geom: ada0" meant, I'd appreciate it, thanks. -ecsd (Eric Dynamic) Berkeley
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