misc/174471: bsdinstall does not newfs and cannot mount any non-standard partitions

[Oleg Pudeyev]

>Number:         174471
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall does not newfs and cannot mount any non-standard partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 16 08:40:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oleg Pudeyev
>Release:        9.1-release
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not installed yet
>Description:
Trying to install freebsd 9.1.

I have the usual /, /usr, /var (which does not work), /tmp and /home assortment of partitions.

I also have a partition that I use for various things that overflow from one of the standard partitions. This one is called /any.

bsdinstall apparently cannot cope with this partition. After specifying it in partition editor, the next step produces:

Error

Error mounting partition /mnt/any:
mount: /dev/ada0s1h: Invalid argument

Then in the shell I performed a newfs on it manually:

newfs /dev/ada0s1h

And then I was able to mount it successfully in the shell.

After bsdinstall fails with that error it completely gives up and offers to restart from the beginning, discarding most data I already entered including partition layout.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install 9.1 and specify a non-standard partition
>Fix:


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