Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:18:42 +0530 From: <Muthu_T@Dell.com> To: <freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org> Subject: Partition Creation Error Message-ID: <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA1851C6D@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com>
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Hi,
Today I tried to debug the following issue:=20
> So far I've indentified the following issues:
>- On a brand new blank disk, sysinstall has problems creating 3
partitions manually - EFI, swap, UFS. (Error >message: Write to da0
failed)
I had found that it is happening in write_ia64.disk.c
At line: 299
line 280: switch (c->type) {
281: case freebsd:
...
...
line 299: default:
300: return (EINVAL); <--
Here it comes!
It means that the 'type' is not stored in 'struct chunk' variable when
we create a partition using 'Create'.
Further debugging results:
When we press 'C' in diskLabel editor, it executes the 'case 'C'
portion.
Then it calls Create_Chunk_DWIM(...) -> Insert_Chunk() -> it goes to the
following :
/* If no leading unused space just occupy the old chunk */
if (c2->offset =3D=3D ct->offset) {
...
...
return 0; <-- From here it returns!
}
Looks like we are missing something here for ia64.
So we need to look at Insert_Chunk() in chunks.c.
Insert_Chunk() is not understanable by me! If you have any idea, please
let me know!
Thanks.
--T. Muthu Mohan
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