--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark <redt...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> From: Mark <redt...@sbcglobal.net> > Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. > To: "Martin McCormick" <mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu> > Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 12:17 AM > > > --- On Fri, 2/5/10, Martin McCormick <mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu> > wrote: > > > From: Martin McCormick <mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu> > > Subject: Re: sysinstall and mfs I'm out of Ideas. > > To: "Mark" <redt...@sbcglobal.net> > > Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:21 PM > > Mark writes: > > > I'm sure you have already read this from man > > sysinstall, but it may give > > > a hint to something you may have missed. > > > > > > > > <<<< Note: > > Nothing is actually written to disk by this function, > an > > > > > explicit call to diskPartitionWrite being required for > that > > > > > to happen. >>>> > > > > > > diskPartitionWrite > > > Causes > > any pending MBR changes (typically from the > > > > > diskPartitionEditor function) to be written out. > > > > > > > > Variables: None > > > > > > > > > <<< Note: No file system data is > actually > > written to disk until an > > > > > explicit call to diskLabelCommit is made. > > > > Thank you. The commit is definitely > > never happening. > > When it does happen, several messages appear and there > is a > > time > > lag while the newfs takes place. It should happen > right > > after > > one selects the installation media. Instead, it just > skips > > that > > step and ruins mfs by overwriting some of its > utilities > > with > > binaries that should be going to the hard drive. > > Again, thanks. > > > > Martin McCormick > > > > perhaps adding "sleep 120" to halt the script execution for > 2 minutes to allow the new files system write to complete. > hth > > _______________________________________________ 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"