Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:32:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> To: mike@seidata.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810162130230.1508-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810161955400.26678-100000@ns1.seidata.com>
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I got the same thing on my 2477/16/63 disk (same machine I was messing with before). Fudged with geometry for awhile before giving up. Also recreated a partition table, MBR, you name it from DOS. Mike: what was the last beta you used successfully? On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 mike@seidata.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm attempting to give 3.0-RELEASE a try on my Toshiba 4015CDT. 3.0 > recognizes everything (flawlessley, I might add) at bootup. > > Everything goes smoothly until I attempt to start the actual transfer > of information from the FTP site and sysinstall starts doing a newfs > to prepare my drive... Sysinstall then gets rather upset and says, > "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0s2a!" and I have to > abort. > > ALT-F2 yields: > > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Cross-device link > newfs: /dev/rwd0s2a: can't rewrite disk label > > Is my partition table just fubar? 2.2.7-RELEASE chugs happily along. Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> | If only I could learn Japanese and get my Servant of Karen Behrens | hands on all 200 Sailor Moon episodes and Engineer, Nameless IRC Network | all the movies, I think my life would I eat Penguins for breakfast. | finally be complete. . . . . . . . . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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