Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 12:38:29 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> To: Eric Dynamic <ecsd@transbay.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Common installation errors? Message-ID: <CAE63ME7B3B57wMZojqgXH%2Bz5v1-jKw7p2br8x4XskAqg1tPOQg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net> References: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net>
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On 20 May 2016 at 00:11, Eric Dynamic <ecsd@transbay.net> wrote: > 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 > I would assume it means gpart didn't like your drive or its existing partitions. Would you, perchance, be able to drop to a shell and issue the following ? # gpart show Here is example output from one of my firewalls : root@pf1-gs:~ # gpart show => 34 142081981 mfid0 GPT (68G) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4194466 137887549 3 freebsd-ufs (66G) You may then remove existing partitions (DATA DESTROYED) : gpart delete -i <partition_number> <drivename> For example : gpart delete -i 3 ada0 Once you have removed all partitions, you can destroy the existing GEOM : gpart destroy ada0 I understand this doesn't fix the installer issue, but at least it should let you move forward :)
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