matthew green wrote:
> 
> this problem may have to do with the particular disk one is using.  now
> that i think about it, it started happening after i installed netbsd
> onto a new disk in the U5, not the original internal disk (which was
> largely unavailable for use, just a small partition, hence the new
> disk.)  i will try out the other disk again and see what happens.


Reading disklabel man page i noticed that in bugs section it talk about
sparc64 issue :

    In addition, the -r option should never be used on a sparc, sparc64
or
     sun3 system boot disk - the NetBSD kernel translates the NetBSD
disk la-
     bel into a SunOS compatible format (which is required by the boot
PROMs)
     when it writes the label. Using the -r causes disklabel to write
directly
     to disk, and bypass the format translation.  This will result in a
disk
     label that the PROMs will not recognize, and that therefore cannot
be
     booted from.

As far as i remember i used the -r options during disk labeling..,i
wonder if this is in someway
related with the problem in object...

In other word... it's possible that the mis-use of '-r' option can lead
to the problem described above??

ThankS