On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Oleg Polyanski wrote:

> > On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
> > 
> > > > 	Does sysint give any error messages when failing to write the
> > > > 	disklabel under 1.3.3?
> > > 
> > > 	nope. there was no any error messages. when i decide continue (after
> > > customizing partitions in disklabel) i get the following:
> > > 
> > > Writting the NetBSD disklabel....
> > > sd1: no disk label
> > > 
> > > 	and so on (newfs fails complaining `/dev/rsd1a: device not configured') etc.
> > > 
> > 	Thats probably normal if its writing the label fro the first time.
> > 	If you break to the command line and run disklabel sd1 does it 
> > 	also report 'sd1: no disk label'.
> 
> 	nope, this is abnormal. `disklabel -r sd1' shows incorrect VTOC (only c and 
> d partitions are correct).
> 
	The message 'sd1: no disk label' is normally displayed when
	writing a diskbale for the first time on a disk. What I was trying
	to determine was whether there was no disklabel, or one with
	invalid (possibly even just default) values.

> > 	Ah - could you try a 1.3I floppy?
> > 
> 
> 	no. i will try it right now.
> 
	Thanks :)

		David/absolute

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