Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:14:53 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Graham J Lee <leeg@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-snap available Message-ID: <436E8E6D.80008@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <436E442C.4090507@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk> References: <436CB6EB.4080402@freebsd.org> <436E442C.4090507@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk>
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Hi Graham, > Unfortunately the Quantum Atlas on my ATTO SCSI card is not recognised, > so I had to rejig things to get data [oh, OK, my iTunes library ;-)] off > of an IDE-attached Maxtor so that I could partition that. Did so (two > partitions in Darwin - disk1s3 for FreeBSD and disk1s5 for swap). Chose > the automagic option in the disklabel editor - this chose to put a few > mounts (/, /usr, /var, swap IIRC) in ad1s3 and didn't work. Went back > to disklabel editor and chose a new layout: > ad1s3 / 18508MB UFS2 Y > ad1s5 swap 1015MB SWAP > > However, I still get errors: > WARNING! Unable to swap to /dev/ad1s5: Device busy I think once the 'auto' option was selected, it isn't possible to roll back to using partitions underneath those slices. I even suspect the same would happen on i386. > so where to go from here...? :) Reboot, do the install again, and go straight to your selected disk layout this time. later, Peter.
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