Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:57:58 -0700 From: "Piggley Winks" <winks.piggley@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD ia-64 mailing list" <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to write data on disk Message-ID: <325b92ee0612121757x47f57e6bn52dc6f378e59fa2c@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello folks, I am experiencing the same problems as Kwok's when I was installing FreeBSD 6.1 on my Itanium machine. Here is the information on how I was going to partition my drive. PartMount Size Newfs ------------- ----- ------------- da1p1 <none>99MB EFI da1p2 <none>400MB EFI da1p4 /1024MB UFS2 Y da1p5 /var1024MB UFS2+S Y da1p6 /tmp1024MB UFS2+S Y da1p7 /usr20480MB UFS2+S Y da1p8 swap16384MB SWAP I also notice the errata posted on May 27, 2006 about a similar problem for the Alpha platform. (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/errata.html) I tried the workaround solution, i.e. running disklabel(8) manually from the Fixit# prompt. For the Holographic shell, it didn't work. Then, I tried the option of "live" filesystem CDROM. I ran the following command as stated on the errata (da1 is the SCSI drive where I want to have my FreeBSD installation). % bsdlabel -rw da1 auto Then, I reboot the machine with disc 1. After I entered into the "create BSD partition" screen, unlike what is described in the errata, I couldn't see any change on the partitions. The only thing that I could do was to partition my hard drive in the way I want. However, I still got the same error message when sysinstall was about to write the partition information onto the drive. ERROR: Unable to write data to disk da1! Can anyone help please? Thank you very much! Best, McMullen
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