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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 1995 00:30:01 -0800
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   i386/251: disklabel(8) refuses to install new bootstrap
Message-ID:  <199503180830.AAA22698@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:12:37 %2B0100 <199503180812.JAA25180@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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>Number:         251
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       disklabel(8) refuses to install new bootstrap
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 18 00:30:00 1995
>Originator:     J Wunsch
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386
>Environment:

FreeBSD disk as been installed by sysinstall (from the 950210-SNAP).

>Description:

When trying to install a new bootstrap program on a disk that has been
installed by sysinstall, disklabel(8) spits out two messages:

warning: revolutions/minute: 0
super block size: 0

and refuses to install the new boot program.
On another disk, the warning has been

partition d: extends past end of unit

we all know *why* this is, but disklabel should not refuse to work.

>How-To-Repeat:

Run ``disklabel -B <disk>'' on a disk that has been initialized by
sysinstall.

>Fix:
	
Not yet known.  The problem can be worked around by running disklabel -e
and fixing the values for rpm and interleave.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:





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