Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 invalid ada0 layout prevents installation

From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw_at_digiware.nl>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:05:29 +0200
Op 8 sep. 2011 om 19:00 heeft "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae_at_FreeBSD.org> het volgende geschreven:

> On 08.09.2011 20:13, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>> This however results in that I can not find any "normal" way in the
>> guided and expert config menus to actual tell it to use the whole disk
>> for a new fresh FreeBSD install.
>> 
>> it keeps complaining
>>    Operation not permitted
>>    'ada0 table is corrupt'
> 
> Do you mean new FreeBSD installer?

The one that get run, once you boot memstick img.
So i guess so, IT doesn't look like the old one.

> 
>> Only way to proceeds seems to be is to go to shell, dd /dev/zero over
>> the first few blocks and then restart....
>> 
>> Not shure that many people that end up using a ZFS old disk, also do not
>> know how to fix this. But then again, what is there is another "corrupt"
>> GPT setup on the disk...
> 
> If your partition table marked as corrupt, you can only destroy or
> recover it.

But even just deleting It dit not work
Next to the fact, that IT came out of a functional zfs-raid set, shift was corrector shutdown.
So The gpt-table being corrupt is doubtfull.
Also because i coups read the table just fine in the emergency-Shell.
No errors no warnings. 

--wJw
Received on Thu Sep 08 2011 - 19:05:15 UTC

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