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From: alanp@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Pearson)
Subject: wd1 on NetBSD problems
Message-ID: <1993May5.053600.3167@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 05:36:00 GMT
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When I was running 386BSD, I had no problem using wd0 and wd1 both.  Now
I have switched to NetBSD and am having problems!  When I go to disklabel
wd1, one of two things happens:

	disklabel -w -r wd1 drive1 

will either cause the error message  "Boot strap doesn't leave enough room for
disk label" or will cause a kernel panic (trap 18) and my machine locks up!

If I don't use -r, then disklabel returns with no errors, I can 
newfs /dev/rwd1a, and then mount it and use it... until I reboot, and then the
kernel reports wd1: bad disk label.  

What's wrong here?  Why doesn't this work?  Please help....


alan pearson
alanp@cory.berkeley.edu