FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 invalid ada0 layout prevents installation

Andrey V. Elsukov ae at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 8 17:00:52 UTC 2011


On 08.09.2011 20:13, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> This however results in that I can not find any "normal" way in the
> guided and expert config menus to actual tell it to use the whole disk
> for a new fresh FreeBSD install.
> 
> it keeps complaining
>     Operation not permitted
>     'ada0 table is corrupt'

Do you mean new FreeBSD installer?

> Only way to proceeds seems to be is to go to shell, dd /dev/zero over
> the first few blocks and then restart....
> 
> Not shure that many people that end up using a ZFS old disk, also do not
> know how to fix this. But then again, what is there is another "corrupt"
> GPT setup on the disk...

If your partition table marked as corrupt, you can only destroy or
recover it.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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