Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:31:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon+freebsd@irtnog.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall Message-ID: <200401261331.i0QDVv3O008882@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200401261340.i0QDeJxj030733@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 61940 >Category: alpha >Synopsis: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-alpha >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 26 05:40:19 PST 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Matthew X. Economou >Release: 5.2-RELEASE >Organization: IRTNOG.ORG >Environment: FreeBSD web1.irtnog.org 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 11 01:06:36 GMT 2004 root@mithlond.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC alpha >Description: When presented with a disk that originally contained OpenVMS or Linux, the disk label editor executed by sysinstall in FreeBSD/alpha 5.2-RELEASE cannot reinitialize the disk with a FreeBSD disk label. Instead, it reports an error about there being no free space on the selected disk. >How-To-Repeat: Install OpenVMS on a hard disk, then attempt to overwrite it with FreeBSD 5.2. The label editor will display the hard drive (e.g. "da0"), but the "A" command reports an error about selecting a drive with free space. >Fix: I can work around the issue if I boot FreeBSD/alpha 4.8-RELEASE. Its version of /stand/sysinstall is capable of re-initializing the disk. Rebooting back into the 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall now allows me to create and format BSD slices. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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