On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Hi: > : > :Trying to install DragonFlyBSD 29th March snapshot for X86_64 > :(on a triple boot system with FreeBSD installed) fails out with > :the error "disklabel64 failed with return code of 1". > : > :FreeBSD is installed on the machine on the second partition sans > :any boot manager or explicit entry on MBR. > > Did it work the second time you tried? That dd it did should have > cleaned out any old label but perhaps the kernel did not re-probe > afterwords. > > -Matt >
Thanks for your reply Matt. Here are the steps that i followed from command line (after logging as root). # disklabel64 -W ad4s2 # fdisk -B -I ad4 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4s2 bs=512 count=32 # disklabel64 -B -r -w ad4s2 auto Now, while i donot see the error message mentioned above, but on executing each command the following message is seen: ad4s2: cannot find label (no disk label). >>> Exit status: 0 The installer continues ahead, but on reboot, the boot loader stalls with the message 'no ufs partition' ! -- thanks Saifi.
