From nobody Mon Aug 18 15:55:53 1997 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23533; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708182255.PAA23533@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 15:55:53 -0700 (PDT) From: garbanzo@hooked.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall will not create disk slices X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 4334 >Category: bin >Synopsis: sysinstall will not create disk slices >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 18 16:00:01 PDT 1997 >Closed-Date: Tue Aug 19 18:14:46 MEST 1997 >Last-Modified: Tue Aug 19 18:15:13 MEST 1997 >Originator: Alex >Release: Current >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD zippy.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Aug 18 14:40:40 PDT 1997 root@zippy.dyn.ml.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ZIPPY i386 /dev/sd0a on / (local) procfs on /proc (local) kernfs on /kern (local) fdesc on /dev (union) /dev/sd1s1 on /mnt/dos0/ (local) >Description: Sysinstall will fail to create new slices within a already created partition. >How-To-Repeat: On a system with scsi (not checked with IDE) disks, if one goes into sysinstall, then selects Configure, Partition, sdx, writes the changes, then goes into the label section, and creates a disk slice, then attempts to write it out, sysinstall will return an error similar to "newfs: /blah invalid argument". Following attempts to write anything out will have sysinstall tell you that you've already written everything to disk. >Fix: Boot up with a 2.2-Release disk, and use sysinstall to preform your disk managment from there. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: garbanzo@hooked.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/4334: sysinstall will not create disk slices Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 08:17:59 +0200 As garbanzo@hooked.net wrote: > Sysinstall will fail to create new slices within a already created > partition. (Btw, FreeBSD uses the terms just opposite to you. Ok, i can still understand your problem.) > >How-To-Repeat: > On a system with scsi (not checked with IDE) disks, if one goes into > sysinstall, then selects Configure, Partition, sdx, writes the > changes, then goes into the label section, and creates a disk slice, > then attempts to write it out, sysinstall will return an error > similar to "newfs: /blah invalid argument". Following attempts to > write anything out will have sysinstall tell you that you've already > written everything to disk. I didn't use a 2.2 boot floppy, but a 2.2-stable one (made yesterday). Well, i assume you were using the "W)rite" options in the fdisk and label editors. Have you been warned? For me, it almost worked. Sysinstall did warn me that it would assume the device nodes for the newly created fdisk slice were already there (which they were not). But after the warning, i've been able to bail out into en Emergency Holographic Shell, and run MAKEDEV there. Of course, you need to specify the mount points of your already existing filesystems, at least those of the root filesystem. Sysinstall wants to write back the fstab. But since you've answered the question when pressing W)rite with `Yes', you are expected to know what you're doing, basically... Booting sysinstall from the installation floppy is probably not the best way for a post-installation configuration. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: joerg State-Changed-When: Tue Aug 19 18:14:46 MEST 1997 State-Changed-Why: Originator says problem went away after cvsupping twice. >Unformatted: