> > 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"