Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:20:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks Message-ID: <199503291720.TAA27644@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199503290843.SAA23221@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 29, 95 06:43:47 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > I think sysinstall creates a valid disk label with size > #secpertrack * #heads * #cyl in both the d_secperunit and the 'd' partition > size fields. It did, but at least until before the last slice changes have been commited, disklabel complained about d_secperunit being less than the actual unit size. I had to correct this value manually to even get a new bootstrap installed. (There's an open bug report for it. Sysinstall should enter the right values, IMHO.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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