From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 16:05:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8DD106564A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFF48FC0C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-185-71.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.185.71]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB641E1BF; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:05:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q2FG5ocv005808; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:05:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:05:50 +0100 From: Polytropon To: David Walker Message-Id: <20120315170550.e3a849ba.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moved drives ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:05:53 -0000 On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:13:40 +1030, David Walker wrote: > I've read boot(8) to some degree and tried interrupting boot and so on. > At some point I get a ... > mountroot> > ... prompt which I guess is what you refer to. > I'm not sure how to influence this - there seems to be no keyboard > control at any rate ... I think you need a regular keyboard here (AT or PS/2), unless your BIOS offers a "USB keyboard legacy support". > I've decided to re-install FreeBSD rather than try to learn about this - lazy. You could have used UFSIDs (unique file system identifiers) as described in the handbook - it's an alternative to using GPT labels (currently looks problematic) or UFS labels (should work). 20.7 Labeling Disk Devices http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html (bottom of page) > During install, although FreeBSD correctly recognizes all the drives > and allows me to select one as a target and "use whole", when it gets > to slicing up the drive and presents the list of all drives, it > incorrectly shows the first drive (the Windows drive) as having UFS > partitions and so on - that drive is a single NTFS slice ... > Needless to say there's no way I'm proceeding with install. Maybe misinterpretation of some remains of GPT partitioning? > So I leave the cabling order (which is what I originally changed > prompting me to email the list) but unplug the Windows drive and > install FreeBSD. > Reboot and ... same situation. > Sort of expected. Have you considered performing a manual installation per shell commands? It's not that difficult and allows you to walk around problems that may reside inside the installer. In worst case, make sure to remove all remains of a previous partitioning ("clean install"). > > If you'd've > > used labels (either glabel or tunefs -L) you'd not have to change > > your /etc/fstab at all. > > I'd have no problem with that ... except it's not given as an option > during install as far as I can see. Is is _indirectly_ given: Start a shell, mount the drive and edit the file manually. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...