Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:57:15 -0500 From: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2009@kiwi-computer.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting useful diagnostics from geom(8) and friends Message-ID: <20100527225715.GE82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinaGs2bQlAv7BLy96B4SDc0mv4J4lqS78Zg_RRs@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimg6CKc0RTNpd-0oI5MegjVPd0eiS5pQCj-chvV@mail.gmail.com> <20100527220241.GA82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> <AANLkTinRhDF2XmyvvbqlhtP2gwsnOiOxv-mKTCAx4feb@mail.gmail.com> <20100527223607.GC82995@kay.kiwi-computer.com> <AANLkTinaGs2bQlAv7BLy96B4SDc0mv4J4lqS78Zg_RRs@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:47:50PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> > >> I didn't run #4 (don't want gptboot on the appliance), but all of the > >> steps failed. > > > > Then how do you boot into FreeBSD? You need to install the boot blocks or > > the loader(8) won't boot. > > We netboot :). PXE then? I'm curious why are you using the MBR strategy and not the GPT strategy? If you're PXE-booting, why have an MBR at all? > >> fdisk doesn't like these Western Digital drives for some whacky reason > >> when I specify fdisk -BIq /dev/ad4, etc... and only after I go in and > > > > What exactly do you mean by "doesn't like"? > > Sorry... should have included that detail... it's an on-and-off issue > where sometimes the drives do properly slice themselves and sometimes > they don't. Not sure why it's so twitchy... > > %fdisk -BIq /dev/ad4 > ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > %ls /dev/ad4* > /dev/ad4 /dev/ad4s1 Is this the error case or the good case? It looks good to me. The error is because an invalid fdisk partition table existed prior to creating the one-slice-for-entire-disk MBR: % truncate -s 1m test % mdconfig -af test md1 % ls /dev/md1* /dev/md1 % fdisk -BIq /dev/md1 ******* Working on device /dev/md1 ******* fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found % ls /dev/md1* /dev/md1 /dev/md1s1 % fdisk -BIq /dev/md1 ******* Working on device /dev/md1 ******* -- Rick C. Petty
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