Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:18:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Message-ID: <XFMail.981016151833.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810161026380.3831-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White, On 16-Oct-98 you wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > 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. > [..] > > 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. > > I can get IDE and SCSI disks to do the same thing; I'll go to work in an > hour and repeat it on a 400MB IDE disk, I bet. > > Re-running 'commit' will work OK. > > I think newfs has issues. If you can get it to run outside of the > install > environment we can backtrace it. The normal newfs works without a hitch. Do you want me to try the /stand one on a running system? > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > 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
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