On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:15:01PM +0300, fulcrum@mbnet.fi wrote:
> I tried the installation process (without sysinst this time) following 
> the instructions in documentation 
> (http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/ap-inst.html).
> 
> #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0 bs=1m count=1
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.233 secs (4500326 bytes/sec)
> # disklabel -I -i wd0
> partition>
> [... editing of the partitions ...]
> partition> W
> Label disk [n] y
> Label written
> partition> Q

What does 'disklabel' say at this point ?

> # newfs -m 5 -b 4096 -f 512 /dev/rwd0a
> wd0: no disklabel
> newfs: /dev/rwd0a: open for read: Device not configured

It looks like the disklabel has not been written.

> [...]
> 
> It was silly of me that I didn't write it down, and I currently dont 
> have the opportunity to test it. If I recall correctly it was "root 
> filesystem unreadable". There were no more info.

I think there also was an error number

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