From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 11:06:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05553 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (gatekeeper.Alameda.net [207.90.181.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05498 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:05:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA08412; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19981016110536.A7140@Alameda.net> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:05:36 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Doug White , Simon Shapiro Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:30:32AM -0700 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:30:32AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): cros-device link > > newfs: /mnt/dev/rda0s4a cant rewrite disk label. > > > > The disk is partitioned to have a 64MB DOS slice a 1GB FreeBSD > > slice another 1GB freeBSD slice and a slightly over 2GB FreeBSD > > slice. > [..] > > The (excessive) confirmations are an attempt to stem ``Oh, it soes not > > happen here, must be the DPT driver'' comments. I belive it does not > > happen elsewhere but is serious enough for us to post it here in search for > > help. We are standing by to do what is needed to make it work. > > I can get IDE and SCSI disks to do the same thing; I'll go to work in an > hour and repeat it on a 400MB IDE disk, I bet. > > Re-running 'commit' will work OK. > > I think newfs has issues. If you can get it to run outside of the install > environment we can backtrace it. I had the same issues with newfs outside of sysinstall, which I reported already earlier. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message