bin/174471: bsdinstall(8): does not newfs and cannot mount any non-standard partitions

Nathan Whitehorn nathan.whitehorn at icecube.wisc.edu
Mon Dec 24 15:30:02 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR bin/174471; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathan.whitehorn at icecube.wisc.edu>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, oleg at bsdpower.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/174471: bsdinstall(8): does not newfs and cannot mount any
 non-standard partitions
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:24:24 -0600

 Could you provide some more information? I can't reproduce this at all.
 The error would seem to indicate the partition is not initialized. Did
 you create it by hand and not run newfs? bsdinstall will only newfs on
 partitions it creates to avoid data loss.
 -Nathan


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