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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:43:33 +0400
From:      Kamigishi Rei <spambox@haruhiism.net>
To:        Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEAD newfs/sysinstall issues
Message-ID:  <4A70DEA5.6010406@haruhiism.net>
In-Reply-To: <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com>
References:  <1248027417.14210.110.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>	<20090729170601.GA2841@tafi.alm.flutnet.org>	<4A709981.80600@FreeBSD.org>	<200907291135.16470.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>	<4A70A9D8.4020701@FreeBSD.org> <344C94F7-539E-40BA-BD9D-4BDAE32953BC@blyon.com>

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Barrett Lyon wrote:
> I've been trying to get the current HEAD snapshot installed on an 
> amd64 box that had some screwed up disk geometry from a previous install.
> When sysinstall runs newfs it complains that it's unable to locate the 
> /dev/ad0x (replace x with whatever it was trying to newfs).  Seems 
> like the partition does get created but does not become visible in /dev
> 7.X works fine.
> Any ideas?
Could you please provide the output of:
fdisk /dev/ad0

and

bsdlabel /dev/ad0sX where X is the FreeBSD slice?

This can be done from fixit, f.ex.
--
Kamigishi Rei
KREI-RIPE



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