Re: HEAD newfs/sysinstall issues

Barrett Lyon wrote:
> I've been trying to get the current HEAD snapshot installed on an 
> amd64 box that had some screwed up disk geometry from a previous install.
> When sysinstall runs newfs it complains that it's unable to locate the 
> /dev/ad0x (replace x with whatever it was trying to newfs).  Seems 
> like the partition does get created but does not become visible in /dev
> 7.X works fine.
> Any ideas?
Could you please provide the output of:
fdisk /dev/ad0

and

bsdlabel /dev/ad0sX where X is the FreeBSD slice?

This can be done from fixit, f.ex.
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Kamigishi Rei
KREI-RIPE