Re: port-sparc/57698: Installer utility partition disk segfaults

[Brandon Applegate <brandon%burn.net@localhost>]

Hey Martin - thanks for the quick reply.

The machine referenced below is an SS20, with 2 x real mechanical HDDs in it (both 18G).

Originally the disk had NetBSD 9.3 on it.  However I dropped to shell and did:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0 bs=1m count=64

This is my attempt at getting rid of the existing disk label.  After doing this the partitioning utility shows the disk with no partitions as expected.

I tried to keep everything as default as possible.  So add a partition ‘a’, everything else default (FFSv2, newfs, use all space)

I also made another attempt where I changed units to GB and tried to make a 12 GB partition - same result.

> "what path exactly did you use when you were done”

Not quite sure I understand this one, as soon as I try to commit the changes it segfaults.

I have also tried this on another machine - an SS10 using a Zuluscsi emultator.  This has 2 x 8gb “disks” on it.  It behaves the same way (segfault).

I know this isn’t ideal, but since this is all on console and I don’t have any video capture gear - I could take a short video with my phone and upload it somewhere (I would probably do imgur unless you have another preference).

Let me know if you’d like me to do this.

Thanks.

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