HEAD newfs/sysinstall issues

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:43:33 +0400
Kamigishi Rei <spambox at haruhiism.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

Just as an additional data point - I saw this problem also and was forced
to blast the start of the disk using dd before I could install 8-BETA1.

Games with fdisk and bsdlabel (using an existing 8-current install)
didn't help at all.

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Gary Jennejohn