Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:11:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Failures with sysinstall in the 19990114 SNAP Message-ID: <199901230311.TAA03280@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Ok, finally got this up on my AS200. The obvious problem: Partitioning isn't working. Attempting to write stuff directly from the partition editor gives: DEBUG: Scanning disk da0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk da0 for swap partitions DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype - (error dialog "WARNING! Unable to swap to /dev/da0b: Invalid argument") DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype - : /dev/rda0a: Invalid argument (error dialog "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rda0a! Command returned status 1") The "devtype -" bit is ominous; it looks like something's out of sync between sysinstall and libdisk... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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