Re: bsdinstall partition error when installing to nvme

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From: Glen Barber <gjb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:36:45 UTC

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 10:31:31PM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attempting to install from:
> FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-amd64-20220421-b91a48693a5-254961-memstick.img
> 
> to brand-new hardware, the installer failed at the stage after where one
> selects partition schema (so, GPT in this case) and UFS filesystem
> with an error like (sorry to be paraphrasing this from memory as the
> hardware is no longer available)
> 
> "autopart failed -5"
> 
> I thought it might be down to it being a nvme stick. The hardware
> in question is Crucial;CT1000P5PSSD8 1TB. Is this a known issue
> with nvme? On that machine, this was the only "disk". Can
> nvme be used as the primary disk on FreeBSD?
> 

This may be related to:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263473

Glen