During the install process, as soon as I press enter to accept the
eula I am getting the following error message with 0.1.1 (#25823p):
An unrecoverable error has occurred. The error was:
Could not decode partition line: ''/dev/sda5 : start 16777279,
size=125301581''
The machine in question is a Dell 1950 with dual core dual procs and
8gb RAM and 2 Broadcom NICs and two 67gb drives in a RAID1 array.
I''ve also checked the md5 of the iso and burned two different CDs, and
successfully installed FreeBSD 8.0 on this box.
Any hints for me?
Kurt
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On Thu, April 22, 2010 4:41 am, Kurt Buff wrote:> During the install process, as soon as I press enter to accept the > eula I am getting the following error message with 0.1.1 (#25823p): > > An unrecoverable error has occurred. The error was: > > Could not decode partition line: ''/dev/sda5 : start > 16777279, size=125301581'' > > The machine in question is a Dell 1950 with dual core dual procs and > 8gb RAM and 2 Broadcom NICs and two 67gb drives in a RAID1 array. > > I''ve also checked the md5 of the iso and burned two different CDs, and > successfully installed FreeBSD 8.0 on this box. > > Any hints for me? > > KurtMy guess would be that you have a BSD labelled disk and it doesn''t like it. Boot it with knoppix or similar and get shut of the BSD disk labelling/partition information and try again. Good luck, Matt. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 01:20, Matthew Law <matt@webcontracts.co.uk> wrote:> On Thu, April 22, 2010 4:41 am, Kurt Buff wrote: >> During the install process, as soon as I press enter to accept the >> eula I am getting the following error message with 0.1.1 (#25823p): >> >> An unrecoverable error has occurred. The error was: >> >> Could not decode partition line: ''/dev/sda5 : start >> 16777279, size=125301581'' >> >> The machine in question is a Dell 1950 with dual core dual procs and >> 8gb RAM and 2 Broadcom NICs and two 67gb drives in a RAID1 array. >> >> I''ve also checked the md5 of the iso and burned two different CDs, and >> successfully installed FreeBSD 8.0 on this box. >> >> Any hints for me? >> >> Kurt > > My guess would be that you have a BSD labelled disk and it doesn''t like it. > > Boot it with knoppix or similar and get shut of the BSD disk > labelling/partition information and try again. > > Good luck, > > Matt.That was exactly it. Interesting that XCP doesn''t remove partitions during install. Thanks, Kurt _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sat, April 24, 2010 3:40 pm, Kurt Buff wrote:> That was exactly it. Interesting that XCP doesn''t remove partitions > during install. > > Thanks, > > KurtI wouldn''t blame XCP. Depending on the method you used, the BSD disk layout would screw up not just the XCP installer, but many linuxen too (remember, XCP is just a nifty appliance built on CentOS). My experience is to expect unpredictable results when re-purposing a disk from one OS to the other -especially the ''interesting'' ones like FreeBSD and Solaris :-) I''m glad it worked out in the end. Good luck, Matt. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 17:05, Matthew Law <matt@webcontracts.co.uk> wrote:> > On Sat, April 24, 2010 3:40 pm, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> That was exactly it. Interesting that XCP doesn''t remove partitions >> during install. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kurt > > I wouldn''t blame XCP. Depending on the method you used, the BSD disk > layout would screw up not just the XCP installer, but many linuxen too > (remember, XCP is just a nifty appliance built on CentOS). > > My experience is to expect unpredictable results when re-purposing a disk > from one OS to the other -especially the ''interesting'' ones like FreeBSD > and Solaris :-) > > I''m glad it worked out in the end. > > Good luck, > > Matt.Thanks. I used DBAN to nuke the partition, then started over. Kurt _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:41:34PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:> During the install process, as soon as I press enter to accept the > eula I am getting the following error message with 0.1.1 (#25823p): > > An unrecoverable error has occurred. The error was: > > Could not decode partition line: ''/dev/sda5 : start > 16777279, size=125301581'' > > The machine in question is a Dell 1950 with dual core dual procs and > 8gb RAM and 2 Broadcom NICs and two 67gb drives in a RAID1 array. > > I''ve also checked the md5 of the iso and burned two different CDs, and > successfully installed FreeBSD 8.0 on this box. > > Any hints for me? >Can you try clearing the partition table before installing XCP? -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users