From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 09:54:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22781 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (nomis.simon-shapiro.org [209.86.126.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA22774 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 4026 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Oct 1998 17:58:02 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Face: (&r=uR0&yvh>h^ZL4"-TH61PD}/|Y'~58Z# Gz&BK'&uLAf:2wLb~L7YcWfau{;N(#LR2)\i.l8'ZqVhv~$rNx$]Om6Sv36S'\~5m/U'"i/L)&t$R0&?,)tm0l5xZ!\hZU^yMyCdt!KTcQ376cCkQ^Q_n.GH;Dd-q+ O51^+.K-1Kq?WsP9;cw-Ki+b.iY-5@3!YB5{I$h;E][Xlg*sPO61^5=:5k)JdGet,M|$"lq!1!j_>? $0Yc? Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Simon Shapiro Subject: RE: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG NewsFlash: While the release from the 4-oct-1998 has the same error messages, it installs correctly. Now, will some wise person who knowns what happened in between help me solve this problem? Simon Simon Shapiro, On 16-Oct-98 you wrote: > Hi Yall, > > I am installing, from scratch, on a known-to-be-good system, FreeBSD > 3.0-CURRENT, the snapshot from 14-Oct (compiled here) and getting the > following error messages during filesystem creation: > > [ After newfs lists superblocks ] > > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): cros-device link > newfs: /mnt/dev/rda0s4a cant rewrite disk label. > > The disk is partitioned to have a 64MB DOS slice a 1GB FreeBSD > slice another 1GB freeBSD slice and a slightly over 2GB FreeBSD > slice. > > There are numerous FreeBSD partitions in each slice. The systme has a > DPT > controller driving a RAID-1 array. The very same system (and numerous > others) are running IDENTICAL hardware with the very same date code > without > any sign of this problem. This problem has been confirmed by others and > is > very real. > > As a reference, 2.2.7 installs and boots. Pre-CAM 3.0 installs and > boots. > > The (excessive) confirmations are an attempt to stem ``Oh, it soes not > happen here, must be the DPT driver'' comments. I belive it does not > happen elsewhere but is serious enough for us to post it here in search > for > help. We are standing by to do what is needed to make it work. > > If you feel like chatting, I am at 770.794.1513 > > > > > Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG > 770.265.7340 > Simon Shapiro > > Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 Simon Shapiro Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message