Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:55:20 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall Message-ID: <200401261355.20312.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200401261830.i0QIUFZq033989@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200401261830.i0QIUFZq033989@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Monday 26 January 2004 01:30 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > The following reply was made to PR alpha/61940; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> > To: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon+freebsd@irtnog.org> > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha > 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:24:35 -0800 > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:31:57AM -0800, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > > When presented with a disk that originally contained OpenVMS or Linux, > > the disk label editor executed by sysinstall in FreeBSD/alpha > > 5.2-RELEASE cannot reinitialize the disk with a FreeBSD disk label. > > Instead, it reports an error about there being no free space on the > > selected disk. > > 1. Please properly wrap you lines, by hand if necessary. :-) > 2. Please email phk@freebsd.org and ask him what part of your disk he > needs 'dd'ed and sent to him to determine if this is something GEOM > isn't taking into account. libdisk and sysinstall are just broken in this case. I thought I had fixed it but I guess I didn't get it done back when I was getting GEOM+sysinstall to even work at all on Alpha. Basically, though, if you take a blank disk with no label at all, sysinstall chokes on it thinking it has no room. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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