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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: 386BSD-0.1 Install problem: can't relabel disk, etc... References: <1992Jul28.200625.11771@donau.et.tudelft.nl> Date: 29 Jul 92 08:31:12 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Keywords: 386bsd Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.712398672@du9ds3> Lines: 78 In <1992Jul28.200625.11771@donau.et.tudelft.nl> franky@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Frank W. ten Wolde) writes: >I'm having trouble installing 386BSD-0.1 to my system. [...] >When I prepare a partition of type A5 on my disk and try to install again >(install -debug) I get: > bios finds: cyl 1001 heads 15 sectors 17 > Partitions: > offset size type flag > 17 153748 a5 0 > 153765 101235 81 0 > 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 0 0 > Do you want to install <...> disk drive's 386BSD partition? (y/n) y > making root size 143055 offset 17 > making swap size 10000 offset 143265 > label written at sector 17 > High level formatting of 386 BSD disk storage: > ... > ... > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, ... > ... > ... > ... , 134704, 138816 > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process > newfs: /dev/rwd0a: can't rewrite disk label >and the installation fails again. >Can someone please explain? I also tries the fixit.fs boot floppy and >used disklabel. Then I get errors about not being able to find/write the >disk label and I get '/dev/rwd0a: invalid argument' errors. This should be in the FAQ (but is not yet :-( Your listing shows that you A5 partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. It starts at head 1, cylinder 0, sector 1 according to your disk parameters. This happens as a "feature" when you prepare the partition by FDISK and change the ID to A5 then. NEWFS does not like to start at a non-cylinder boundary and does not find the location to store the disk label. I think this is not a bug, but a vital feature, so don't patch the newfs source to get the remaining 238 sectors (they won't save your life). Change the offset to 15*17 = 255 and adjust the size accordingly (subtract 255-17). Install should work then. >My system is: 386/33 (unknown chipset) > 4 Mb core > no NCP > ST1144AT (drive 1: 125Mb) > ST251AT (drive 2: 43Mb) > SC499 (tape controller) I am not sure about your tape controller, but the rest is not critical. > >Thanks! >-Frank ten Wolde >-- >############################################################################# ># Frank W. ten Wolde (PA3FMT) | E-mail: franky@duteca.et.tudelft.nl ># Delft University of Technology | ># The Netherlands | Hope that helps Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"