From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 19:00:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8708116A41F; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:00:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leeg@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk) Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk (mail.metronet.co.uk [213.162.97.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC4843D46; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:00:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leeg@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (84-51-133-9.oxford903.adsl.metronet.co.uk [84.51.133.9]) by smtp.metronet.co.uk (MetroNet Mail) with ESMTP id 2D41C41671D; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:59:57 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <436FA43A.1040102@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:00:10 +0000 From: Graham J Lee User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <436CB6EB.4080402@freebsd.org> <436E442C.4090507@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk> <436E8E6D.80008@freebsd.org> <200511071141.16445.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200511071141.16445.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter Grehan , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-snap available X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:00:13 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday 06 November 2005 06:14 pm, Peter Grehan wrote: > >> >> 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. > > > No, it isn't. I often do an auto to see what it sets, then delete the > selections, bump up /'s size for a test machine (lots of kernels) and then > use auto again to setup the other partitions. I've done this for amd64 and > sparc64 recently and it worked fine. sysinstall tries to invoke swapon on > swap partitions after it newfs's everything and it seems that swapon() is > failing, probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open > still. Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe? > Actually, Peter's suggestion to just go ahead and use my custom scheme worked. I've never had the failure he described on x86 though - I always proceed by selecting the auto options then tweaking to suit. But it's now unpacking base (into my monolithic / slice :-)), I'll post a dmesg to my website when I get the installation done. Cheers, Graham. -- Graham Lee UNIX Systems Manager, Oxford Physics Practical Course http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1342