From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 18:28:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05393 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05374 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01522; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:32:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:32:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: mike@seidata.com cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got the same thing on my 2477/16/63 disk (same machine I was messing with before). Fudged with geometry for awhile before giving up. Also recreated a partition table, MBR, you name it from DOS. Mike: what was the last beta you used successfully? On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 mike@seidata.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm attempting to give 3.0-RELEASE a try on my Toshiba 4015CDT. 3.0 > recognizes everything (flawlessley, I might add) at bootup. > > Everything goes smoothly until I attempt to start the actual transfer > of information from the FTP site and sysinstall starts doing a newfs > to prepare my drive... Sysinstall then gets rather upset and says, > "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0s2a!" and I have to > abort. > > ALT-F2 yields: > > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Cross-device link > newfs: /dev/rwd0s2a: can't rewrite disk label > > Is my partition table just fubar? 2.2.7-RELEASE chugs happily along. Matt Behrens | If only I could learn Japanese and get my Servant of Karen Behrens | hands on all 200 Sailor Moon episodes and Engineer, Nameless IRC Network | all the movies, I think my life would I eat Penguins for breakfast. | finally be complete. . . . . . . . . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message