On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 20:06 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I use the amd64 install DVD. > > > > With or without deleting, I can't format a bootable FreeBSD partition to > > ada0s1, aka Linux /dev/sda1. FWIW if I reinstall GRUB legacy > > to /dev/sda, the boot flag will be set for the extended > > partition. /dev/sda1 is an empty ext3 partition, size 57.83 GiB. > > Delete it, or set it to type 0xa5. I think the first is probably better > for bsdinstall to see it as available. Expect boot loaders to be > overwritten, so make a backup, preferably of everything.
It already was deleted for the last attempts. Another day, fortunately I've got much time, so I'll read how to use the shell for partitioning. I don't know if I'm an idiot or if the installer is broken, most likely I'm an idiot + the installer is broken. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ 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"