alpha/61940: Can't disklabel new disk from FreeBSD/alpha 5.2-RELEASE sysinstall

[John Baldwin]

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 at FreeBSD.org>
> To: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon+freebsd at irtnog.org>
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at 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 at 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.

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