Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:09:31 -0500 (EST) From: rwatson@freebsd.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/24435: Unable to create root partition. Too big? Message-ID: <200101181709.f0IH9Va82930@fledge.watson.org>
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>Number: 24435 >Category: bin >Synopsis: Changing slice type causes Auto-partition to not work >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 18 09:10:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Robert Watson >Release: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 >Organization: NAI Labs >Environment: 4.2-RELEASE install >Description: A co-worker of mine was installing FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on a machine that previously held two FAT partitions. Rather than delete and recreate the first partition to change it to a FreeBSD partition, he changed the partition "type" using T. The slice editor then showed "the right thing". However, when he then got to partition allocation, hitting A resulted in the following message: Unable to create the root partition. Too big? Going back and deleting the FreeBSD slice (was a FAT slice), then creating it again caused auto-partitioning to work fine. It sounds like the change in slice type is not being propagated properly to the partitioning phase. Also, it sounds like the debugging output from the partition creation is a tad on the not-so-specific-side. >How-To-Repeat: Use Partition Magic, DOS Fdisk, or some other magic tool to create two FAT partitions on a disk. Then run the 4.2-RELEASE install floppies and use T to change the first slice to a FreeBSD partition. Then continue to the FreeBSD partitioning screen, and hit A for automatic partition creation. The failure should occur. >Fix: Not attached. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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