gpart usage during install

Michael Powell nightrecon at hotmail.com
Sun Feb 19 01:03:03 UTC 2012


Robert Simmons wrote:

> I'm just installing a 9.0-RELEASE instance in Virtual Box to check
> things out.  I ran into something odd.  With 8.x I install certain
> things into a geli encrypted partition.  To do this I have to use a
> fixit shell and a manual install.  Now, I'm trying to do the same
> thing in 9.0, but when I get to the partitioning stage of the install,
> and I select the option to setup the partitions in a shell, I get the
> following error from gpart.  What has changed?  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> # gpart create -s GPT ad0
> gpart: arg0 'ad0': Invalid argument

9 is using the new ATA_CAM layer now, so your drive will look like:
ada0 instead of the old ad0.

-Mike





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