Date: 17 Mar 1998 13:13:11 -0000 From: woju@freebsd.ee.ntu.edu.tw To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: misc/6042: disklable editor problem of boot.flp Message-ID: <19980317131311.9511.qmail@freebsd.ee.ntu.edu.tw>
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>Number: 6042 >Category: misc >Synopsis: problem of disklable editor in boot.flp >Confidential: yes >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 17 05:20:00 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: woju >Organization: Nation Taiwan University Electrical Engineering >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA i386 >Environment: 2.2.6-980315-BETA FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA #0: Mon Mar 16 14:23:31 CST 1998 CPU: Pentium (120.27-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5 Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) >Description: Booting from ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-980315-BETA/floppies/boot.flp In the main menu, select configure -> disk label editor It does not recognize the old(existing) disk lables, and report the whole slice is free. For example: freebsd[woju]:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd2s1a 194719 107911 71231 60% / ... When booting from boot.flp, select disklabel editor, it would treat wd2s1 as new slice, and report the whole size as free space, ignoring the existing wd2s1a(and other existing labels in the wd2s1). The problem make it diffcult to "upgrade" existig system via install new systems (overwrite or replace the old systems). Also, it may cause "large, whole" data lose easily due to the mis-report of "free space" in the existing slice. >How-To-Repeat: booting from ftp://releng22.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-980315-BETA/floppies/boot.flp select configure -> disk label editor >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: yes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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