Swap Partition First?

[Bob Johnson]

The only thing that looks out of place is that you have defined
ad0s1-2 before ad0s1-1. I've never tested it, but perhaps this is
causing it to get confused when calculating the disk layout? In other
words, perhaps you should use

#1G swap followed by / on rest of disk.
 #
 ad0s1-1=swap 2097152
 #All the rest is FreeBSD with soft updates.
 ad0s1-2=ufs 0 / 1

so they are defined in numerical sequence.


On 1/27/10, Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> Our FreeBSD systems mostly have a very simple disk layout. There
> is a 1 or 2-gigabyte swap partition and all the rest is FreeBSD.
> When manually configuring these partitions in sysinstall, I
> usually set up swap first with a 1GB size and then use the
> remaining  space by selecting the values as defaults.
>
> 	An attempt to script this in an install.cfg file is not
> going well. The disk formatting part of the file is as follows:
>
> disk=ad0
> partition=all
> bootManager=none
> diskPartitionEditor
> #Entire disk is FreeBSD.
> diskPartitionWrite
> ################################
>
> ################################
> # All sizes are expressed in 512 byte blocks!
> #
> #1G swap followed by / on rest of disk.
> #
> ad0s1-2=swap 2097152
> #All the rest is FreeBSD with soft updates.
> ad0s1-1=ufs 0 / 1
> # Let's do it!
> diskLabelEditor
> diskLabelCommit
>
> # OK, everything is set.  Do it!
> installCommit
>
> 	This doesn't work. sysinstall reports that it can't
> write the swap space.
>
> 	fdisk reports a FreeBSD partition and all the others are
> shown as free.
>
> 	Any ideas? Thank you.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
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