From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 11:15:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08494 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:15:51 -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 LAA08404 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 29467 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Oct 1998 19:18:33 -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 15:18:33 -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: Doug White 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 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