From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 10:54:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FC416A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101D443D2F for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 3323 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 18:54:32 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 26 Jan 2004 18:54:32 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0QIsNM0050810; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:54:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:55:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401261830.i0QIUFZq033989@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200401261830.i0QIUFZq033989@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401261355.20312.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:54:43 -0000 On Monday 26 January 2004 01:30 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > The following reply was made to PR alpha/61940; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: "David O'Brien" > To: "Matthew X. Economou" > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha > 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:24:35 -0800 > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:31:57AM -0800, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > > 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. > > 1. Please properly wrap you lines, by hand if necessary. :-) > 2. Please email phk@freebsd.org and ask him what part of your disk he > needs 'dd'ed and sent to him to determine if this is something GEOM > isn't taking into account. libdisk and sysinstall are just broken in this case. I thought I had fixed it but I guess I didn't get it done back when I was getting GEOM+sysinstall to even work at all on Alpha. Basically, though, if you take a blank disk with no label at all, sysinstall chokes on it thinking it has no room. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org