20040214 snapshot available on ftp2.freebsd.org

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:10:11PM +0100, Joachim Fehn wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2004 23:30, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > Gang,
> >
> > I uploaded a new snapshot to ftp2.freebsd.org. The snapshot fixes
> > the installation problem, as well as fixes the ATA problem. Please
> > try it out.
> 
> I tried it on a HP ZX6000 on an empty scsi disk (id 1).
> There are a FreeBSD 5.1 installation (id 0) and an otherwise used disk (id 2), 
> which I don't want to modfiy.
> 
> 1. Installation created a gpt disk label and completed. When rebooting, 
> neither the EFI boot manager, nor the EFI built in shell could access a 
> slice/partition on the disk. The loader was not found.

The loader is installed in the EFI system partition, as well as the kernel.

> 2. I created an msdos slice with fat32, using ia64-Linux. Unlike 5.1, the 
> snapshot didn't offer the wanted disk, but only the 3rd disk. I see no way to 
> prepare the wanted disk, that the installation will go there.

Note that if the disk has a MBR, it will not be accepted. Make sure you
didn't create a MBR with the Linux tool. The best thing to do is to make
the disk truely empty, which boils down to clobbering sectors 0 and 1.

> 3. I removed the disks 0 and 2, plugged the empty disk to id 0. The 
> installation aborted, because it didn't find any disk.

See previous comment. If there's a MBR on the disk that's not a PMBR,
sysinstall will not use the disk.

HTH,

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net