Bug in bsdinstall (fs found where not present)
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Aug 29 21:04:25 UTC 2013
>From a 9.2-PRERELEASE snapshot, go into the shell, create a GPT disk
layout with a bunch of partitions for filesystems and swap. Exit the
shell and run the installer.
Go through each partition setting a mount point. Tell bsdinstall to
continue. It reports that the / partition has a preexisting filesystem
(it does not, in fact; this disk had a mishmash of MBR and NTFS on it).
Tell bsdinstall to continue anyway. It does, and then reports that it
can't mount /dev/ada0p2 on /mnt, presumably because, contrary to the
misleading and incorrect error message, there is no filesystem on there.
The install fails, try again, entering all the mount points, and it will
fail the same.
Short term solution: newfs the / partition, so there really is a
filesystem there for bsdinstall to detect and warn about. Then it
works.
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