On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in > this thread. Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to > help somebody get the OS installed is about as basic as it gets for me; > I'd be hugely relieved if someone with more / better clues took it on. > > We didn't get to try W)rite from the fdisk and label screens until long > after all attempts at letting sysinstall deal with things had failed to > even slice the disk, bombing on this error every time. Chris' disk is > brand new, nothing installed. W)riting from sysinstall succeeded at > least in creating ad4s1 in the MBR and writing the bootblocks to that > slice. I made it very clear this is not something to do without due > care; in the circumstances there was absolutely nothing to be lost. > > And then the GPT issue, of which I was totally ignorant. Fixed. > > I agree, you seem to be lumping me into a generalization based on the errormsg. > > If you google the error message in the OP, the first result is: > > > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1675 > > I read this, while that PR Reporter claims the same error message, the conditions in which s/he gets it _are not_ the same conditions in which I am getting this. _______________________________________________ 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"