Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:16:05 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Jochen Fahrner <freebsd@fahrners.de> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation fails after creating disklabel Message-ID: <20090410131605.700093df@gluon.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <6AB5FC9B-EECF-40AB-8610-254AA42A6BD3@fahrners.de> References: <F1C3EDFE-81B7-4FF7-88C8-70D4CDF4FA81@fahrners.de> <6AB5FC9B-EECF-40AB-8610-254AA42A6BD3@fahrners.de>
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:03:27 +0200 Jochen Fahrner <freebsd@fahrners.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > > > After creating the partitions the installation aborts with the > > following error message: > > > > "Error mounting /dev/ad0s5 on /mnt: Operation not permitted" > > > I've got it! Disk partitioning works not the same way as on i386 > platforms. > The normal way is to have "slices" (created by fdisk), each slice > divided into "partitions" (using disklabel). > > On FreeBSD PPC (Mac only?) disklabel cannot divide slices into > partitions. Each slice can only have 1 partition. So one has to > setup the whole partition layout with Mac OS disk utility, and then > create the correct partition in each slice using disklabel. > > I think this should be explained somewhere in the install > documentation. There's also a PR about this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=powerpc/93203 I think the issue is that fdisk doesn't know how to deal with the Apple Partition Map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map). Hopefully things will be better with 8.0 since it'll use gpart for partitioning. -- Bruce Cran
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