[PC-BSD Testing] 9 alpha bootonly install failure

[Bruce Cran]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:47:22 -0400
Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:

> I'm looking at the saved pc-sysinstall.log here, and no rootPassword=
> line is present... Is this the debug log by any chance, or are you
> grabbing this from /tmp/.pc-sysinstall/pc-sysinstall.log on the
> install image?

The installation program told me the log had been saved
to /tmp/pc-sysinstall.log, and showed the contents of that file. It
contains a copy of the configuration:

[...]
umount: /mnt/usr: not a file system root directory
Running: umount -f /mnt
Running: umount /cdmnt-install
umount: /cdmnt-install: statfs: No such file or directory
umount: /cdmnt-install: unknown file system
Trying DHCP on em0  <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.2>

# PC-SYSINSTALL CFG
# Auto-Generated pc-sysinstall configuration
installInteractive=no
installMode=fresh
installType=PCBSD
packageType=tar

installMedium=ftp
ftpPath=ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/9-CURRENT-20101030/i386

[...]

# Root Password
rootPass=arootpassword

> So is this just as simple as changing the start sector to 4096? How
> about non-4k disks, does this effect them at all? Is there any other
> 4k magic thats required to get this right?
> 

Unfortunately it's not so simple because gpart apparently requires that
the start sector for the MBR scheme be divisable by 63. 258048 should
work I think. It won't affect non-4k disks - Windows has been using an
offset of around 1MB since Vista
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814%28SQL.100%29.aspx).

-- 
Bruce Cran