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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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