fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found

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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>> Boot install CD and choose Fixit
>
> get live CD, it's better for this.
>
>> fdisk -BI
>> extract saved disklabel from tape and install with bsdlabel
>> Initialise filesystems using stored output of dumpfs -m (from tape)
>> Restore filesystems from tape
>
> good you have such i plan. this is rare case today;)
>
>>
>> I'm tripping up on the first step, which although it appears to 
>> create the
>
> you forgot to bsdlabel -B ad0a (or da0s1a whatever you have) after 
> restore
>
>> slice, throws a ``Geom not found'' message - which is potentially 
>> worrying to
>> someone blindly following a recovery script.
> no idea, i don't use slices (just disklabel)
>
> maybe kernel module not loaded?
>
> is slice actually created?
>
> as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i 
> ignored it as everything worked fine.
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Aloha,

I get that response with many of the large hard drives I install. I dont 
think it means anything because once you just carry on FreeBSD doesn't 
seem to care. I think somebody posted that it was either bios or drive 
size related at one time.

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