From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 22:50:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2831065679 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:50:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from redtick@sbcglobal.net) Received: from web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05F128FC08 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 54543 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Feb 2010 22:50:06 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sbcglobal.net; s=s1024; t=1265410206; bh=8IM5L+7EY+e8FFDYuoHXlCQr3NOrKE5AU5LRWanaC1Y=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Wawe5IYV8viA8BftR1p2M2ta6xHCrvzE/4F3kHD1wRBwXxxFQbsbI1VeruvxNHQS9+jtqyqoatjqffhhGo8e6Fg0l3wzyxfZPCceXJOPwd6y8/grpE020EpIx/z0bglOmxauCXJ7d8Qt1d+rYCj2vXnwYdG3qbJzoi2elSfAvuQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=lDRXRyq4UKGo/st+wN8tuBP4WeneDWD5iIdc3o+LEj57cd84Y+1WVKu7MfXwANwigQCuqtb3VOgxsTBHuXYG2sssX6s+KD2bV3gTsssujKP1e5SIUTHYsIRfOMi6J5/XOTXJBOt52GGwScbcaVQObYEEKex+f8AwmxSxgoyWc+o=; Message-ID: <669216.52998.qm@web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: GivfzS0VM1m1ToPawtowr4wpFQAD5a_UEGkg.CIyKFeH1rIKPC3eSwSzlqMrlao1UsgwtDCD48qOgrM3zMt7Cmc_0Ubly4qEbedigY_xHQATUKC1_TOFSqys0SrTO3Ar9BKawqixjscXE75T3nTsotN2_G49ycn8pOOXWowAPJ_AXWLlKPnY14Tn7UyCy5E29WRlW3JR4KhenAwAf0esPUYvZaPHN1wSvuhC75Vor_1KAYheEdI8Ll_QBJ2K.EceyVOHqbvfzS5SO.PzGAMissDBQfFGdAgTQd1_QW46Lk6Bg1SWPf5GduBXwaBMpCKOnAyMaS6MAKp3T9_A2yY45FXOp_LGpu1Vc02SiEw2iaWhNQbVTedbfIZXSPA- Received: from [75.41.234.83] by web81201.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:50:06 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/9.1.10 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:50:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mark To: Martin McCormick In-Reply-To: <201002052022.o15KMRg3037195@dc.cis.okstate.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: help help Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:50:08 -0000 --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick wrote: > From: Martin McCormick > Subject: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:22 PM > =A0=A0=A0 After about a week > of trying, I don't think sysinstall > will=A0 install FreeBSD when used with mfsbsd. I > launched mfsbsd > from a CDROM and it works fine. I also used dd to feed the > mfsboot.img file to the boot sector on the system's hard > drive > and that also worked fine. mfsbsd doesn't appear to be the > problem.=A0 Everything but sysinstall works as one would > expect. >=20 > =A0=A0=A0 Sysinstall may either be confused > because the host is in > multi-user mode or it may be trying to protect what it > thinks is > the system's boot drive from damage. It absolutely will > not > write one byte to /dev/ad0 partitions even though it sees > the > drive. the rest of sysinstall appears to be normal except > for > its fear about writing to /dev/ad0sx. >=20 > =A0=A0=A0 I will be very happy to be proven wrong, > but I don't > know what else to do to sysinstall to get it to use that > drive. >=20 > =A0=A0=A0 It does work from the local console in > single-user mode > from the CDROM. I greatly appreciate all the help and > welcome > any new ideas, but it appears to be back to the drawing > board > for remotely-done upgrades. >=20 > Martin McCormick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > I'm sure you have already read this from man sysinstall, but it may give a = hint to something you may have missed. =20 <<<< Note: Nothing is actually written to disk by this function, an explicit call to diskPartitionWrite being required for that to= happen. >>>> diskPartitionWrite Causes any pending MBR changes (typically from the diskPartitionEditor function) to be written out. Variables: None <<< Note: No file system data is actually written to disk until an explicit call to diskLabelCommit is made. >>> diskLabelCommit Writes out all pending disklabel information and creates and/o= r mounts any file systems which have requests pending from the diskLabelEditor function. Variables: None