Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 01:42:07 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting useful diagnostics from geom(8) and friends Message-ID: <AANLkTimV7DDGXd4EP_v-KAV2z02Y2LtMoVYai8ejf4Di@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BFF6D97.7070904@icyb.net.ua> References: <AANLkTimg6CKc0RTNpd-0oI5MegjVPd0eiS5pQCj-chvV@mail.gmail.com> <4BFF6D97.7070904@icyb.net.ua>
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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote: > on 28/05/2010 00:48 Garrett Cooper said the following: >> Hi again geom folks, >> =A0 =A0 =A0I tried executing the following commands in a script to creat= e a >> clean MBR partition and it's not clear to me where I'm messing up with >> the process in the first step: >> >> % gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd ad4 # exits with a non-zero code >> gpart: 22 geom 'ad4' >> >> % gpart create -s MBR ad4 >> gpart: 22 scheme 'MBR' > > What version of FreeBSD is this? > I get much friendlier diagnostics on head and stable/8. It's 7.1-PRERELEASE. The issue was that the support for geom labels and the proper partitioning formats were omitted by another engineer in my team, and unfortunately I didn't think twice to check the KERNCONF. Thanks, -Garrett
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