Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 18:13:05 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Common installation errors? Message-ID: <573E3A71.3020809@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net> References: <573E3A02.8000808@transbay.net>
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On 2016-05-19 18:11, Eric Dynamic 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" If you switch to the shell console (control+alt+f4), you should be able to destroy the old partition table: gpart destroy -F ada0 And then create a new one. I am not sure what is wrong with the old one. If you would like to try to figure it out: gpart show ada0 gpart backup ada0 And provide those for us to look at. -- Allan Jude
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