Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:25:51 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <AANLkTi=K4Uonv=F6u0v_jHZLvgKYsqhHPYbi0eCuLNx5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <iflspm$nuc$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <20101230133126.O36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <iflspm$nuc$1@dough.gmane.org>
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> > Yes - true enough. Was thinking partition table and typed 'mbr'. > > It's all good, I got the cmd right in the end, but alas, it helped me not! > > Mmm .. it's not clear from Chris' original message exactly what he did. > > I clarified that in a subsequent reply with considerably more detail :D > In my case, a temporary replacement disk had FreeBSD 6.2 on it. Something > changed wrt to disklabeling on the way to 8-Release and the old 6.2 being > present created a situation where that region on the disk was invisible to > the new labeling and wouldn't write out. A new install of 8-Release > (sysinstall) would error out with the same message as Chris when it came to > the point of writing out to the disk. For me, the above 2 commands fixed my > situation. Even though his error is the same, I think his problem may be > different from mine. > > -Mike > I have a 2GB MicroSD card that I am going to toss 8.2BETA1 on, hopefully later today and see where that gets me.
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