Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:02:46 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE Message-ID: <20110106170246.00001f25@unknown> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=b14N4Os6S6Hx4PBmUPnSgzDHP_Tm2CWeBMw8R@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=b14N4Os6S6Hx4PBmUPnSgzDHP_Tm2CWeBMw8R@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:38:33 +0300 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a strange problem. On one system that I am running, I cannot > use sysinstall to do partition/label for a disk. This problem seems > peculiar to this OS, somewhere. > When I launch sysinstall, I get some funny message appear on the > screen (see http://lix.in/-9b7e16 for an image). > >From there I choose custom -> partition > Select the disk then enter > partition editor. The cursor simply refuses to move from there, though > keyboard is active. The problem is that geom has been extended with additional types (e.g. glabel, gsched) that libdisk doesn't know about - so it gets confused. -- Bruce Cran
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