Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:59:10 +0000 From: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD 8.4 in bhyve Message-ID: <20140410195909.GC34413@mouf.net> In-Reply-To: <5346EBEA.3070005@freebsd.org> References: <20140410180929.GB34413@mouf.net> <5346EBEA.3070005@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:07:22PM -0700, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.4 in bhyve, but running into some issues. > > Sysinstall doesn't seem to like the disk. In the partition editor, I get: > > > > Disk name: vtbd1 FDISK Partition Editor > > DISK Geometry: 0 cyls/0 heads/0 sectors = 0 sectors (0MB) > > > > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > > > > 0 209715200 209715199 - 12 unused 0 > > > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > The bhyve virtio-block backend doesn't report c/h/s geometry, which is > required by the 8.4 installer. You can work around this by using the 'G' > command to enter a fake geometry that will give the size of the device. > > > This is using the 8.4 Release disc1 iso on > > 11-CURRENT r264056. I'm using virtio-blk for both the cd and hd. Should this be > > working? > > Not cleanly :( I have an 8.4/i386 disk image so I managed to get > through it at one point: can't remember what the workarounds were > though. Think I did a network install with the minimal ISO. Thanks! Setting the geometry allowed me to partition and then after configuring the networking I was able to install via passive ftp. Steve
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