On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:05:34PM +0300, fulcrum@mbnet.fi wrote:
> On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 16:36 Europe/Helsinki, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:15:01PM +0300, fulcrum@mbnet.fi wrote:
> >>[... editing of the partitions ...]
> >>partition> W
> >>Label disk [n] y
> >>Label written
> >>partition> Q
> >
> >What does 'disklabel' say at this point ?
> 
> The result seem to vary. Usually it will _only_ show the wd0d partition 
> + the error below. Once it showed a totally screwed up label (after 
> sysinst), and once it hung up.
> 
> >It looks like the disklabel has not been written.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> An error message show up quite often when using disklabel (eg. 
> #disklabel wd0):
> disklabel: boot block size 0
> disklabel: super block size 0
> 
> When editing the disklabel it will usually give the error:
> wd0: no disklabel

Really, really strange.
Did you check that you can write to the disk with dd ?

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