Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:42:34 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysinstall fails Message-ID: <20031112174234.GA2734@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031112121636.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20031112162413.GA9744@dragon.nuxi.com> <XFMail.20031112121636.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:16:36PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 12-Nov-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:37:03AM +0200, toha@toha.org.ua wrote: > >> I've made fresh (20031111) release from HEAD. > >> During installation, sysinstall has troubles creating > >> filesystems. > >> > >> 1). fdisk creates slice with name "ad0p1". and newfs > >> can't find /dev/ad0p1*. > >> 2). if i create slice, then do "rescan devices" or > >> rerun sysinstall, slice has name "ad0s1". but > >> newfs says: "cannot retrive operator gid" > > > > Yes. I ran into this just yesterday. > > The fdisk slice name problem might be related to Marcel's GPT > changes to sysinstall. GPT partitions use /dev/ad0pX while > MBR slices use /dev/ad0sX. Both are created in the fdisk > part of sysinstall. Yup, my bad. I'll make the code ia64 specific. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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