On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Chris Brennan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote:
Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise,
but Chris will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they're out
there.
Aha! http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
May/may not be helpful, but the price is right. Feedback welcome.
Can I bow at your feet?!? This gave me just enough of a clue to go back and
arbitraility pass 'gpart delete -i 1 ad4' which actually deleted a partition! I
then zeroed the first 73 and
the last 33 blocks of the drive. fdisk still complained about 'Class not found'
which I googled and found to be an artifact of gpart(8).
destroy -F is supposed to mean "Forced destroying of the partition table
even if it is not empty." But compare to this thread on the forum
earlier today: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=20731
Maybe -F isn't quite as brutal as it needs to be.
So my question is this now, once gpart has touched a disk, does it have the
partition-aids now?
GPT does seem to be tenacious, and I'm wondering if maybe there's
something left in RAM that's written back to the disk on shutdown.
Moving on, I then continued the standard process listed by your link,
bsdlabel'd my layout and saved it, when I do an 'ls -lsga /dev | grep ad4' I
see that I have partitions a,b,d,e,f
and I was able to newfs each one of them
Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a manual
install of just base? if I can get the system installed at this point then all
should be good when I reboot.
I would just boot the install CD, enter q and the fdisk screen, enter
the mountpoints and q at the label screen, and let it do the rest._______________________________________________
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