Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:32:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      aa8vb@ipass.net
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:        aa8vb@ipass.net
Subject:   bin/12421: sysinstall label fails
Message-ID:  <199906272332.TAA02169@stealth.ipass.net.>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

>Number:         12421
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall label fails
>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:   Sun Jun 27 16:40:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Randall Hopper
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
self
>Environment:

	Stock 3.2-RELEASE

>Description:

        I repartitioned and labeled a slice on one of my disks (wd4s1), and
        sysinstall's Fdisk succeeded and then the Label failed the first
        time ("Invalid Argument").  Then, after I exited sysinstall and
        restarted it, Label and Newfs worked.  I repeated this procedure
        twice (Fdisk, Label, Newfs), and got the same results the second
        time around (Label after Fdisk fails; exit sysinstall; restart;
        then Label succeeds).

>How-To-Repeat:

	Included in problem description.  Start sysinstall, Fdisk, Label,
        and Newfs a data partition.  In my case at least, Label right after
        Fdisk fails.

>Fix:
	
	Exit sysinstall after Fdisk, restart, then it works.  Some
        sysinstall state seems to be corrupt the first time around.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199906272332.TAA02169>