Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:05:36 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Message-ID: <19981016110536.A7140@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810161026380.3831-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:30:32AM -0700 References: <XFMail.981016124620.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810161026380.3831-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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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
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