On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
> destroy -F is supposed to mean "Forced destroying of the partition table > even if it is not empty." But compare to this thread on the forum earlier > today: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20731 > > Maybe -F isn't quite as brutal as it needs to be. > > I still can't find any documentation on this in the manpages? HA! I just finished skimming the above thread, -F is indeed new and not in 8.1. I am going to set up a local mirror of 7.x, 8.x and HEAD over the next week and if I remember, I'll be sure to check it out and see if it does infact exist in 8.2. > So my question is this now, once gpart has touched a disk, does it have >> the partition-aids now? >> > > GPT does seem to be tenacious, and I'm wondering if maybe there's something > left in RAM that's written back to the disk on shutdown. > > Sneaky ... but possibly not likely since I more then once pulled the plug and didn't give it time to actually write anything. Either way, between your link and Bruce's, all is well. > > Moving on, I then continued the standard process listed by your link, >> bsdlabel'd my layout and saved it, when I do an 'ls -lsga /dev | grep ad4' I >> see that I have partitions a,b,d,e,f >> and I was able to newfs each one of them >> >> Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a >> manual install of just base? if I can get the system installed at this point >> then all should be good when I reboot. >> > > I would just boot the install CD, enter q and the fdisk screen, enter the > mountpoints and q at the label screen, and let it do the rest. See, I did that the first time and it all came to a screaming halt. That's when I started to get creative with Ian. I'm going to take a stab in the dark and blame Seagate for kludging the disk on me. Either way, a manual fdisk and bsdlabel did the trick, it's got to be something in sysinstall not liking what ever was written there by gpart... _______________________________________________ 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"
