From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 12:16:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40963106566B for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:16:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (brucec-1-pt.tunnel.tserv4.nyc4.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f06:c09::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C9A8FC0C for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:16:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195B519017; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:16:16 +0000 (GMT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from gluon.draftnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:240:f4ff:fe57:9871]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:16:15 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:16:05 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Jochen Fahrner Message-ID: <20090410131605.700093df@gluon.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <6AB5FC9B-EECF-40AB-8610-254AA42A6BD3@fahrners.de> References: <6AB5FC9B-EECF-40AB-8610-254AA42A6BD3@fahrners.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation fails after creating disklabel 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: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:16:14 -0000 On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:03:27 +0200 Jochen Fahrner 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