On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:17:08 -0500 (EST) 
>  Kevin Currie <kcurrie@on.bell.ca> wrote:
> 
>  > Installing boot block...disklabel: /dev/rsd0c: Undefined error: 0
>  > 
>  > 	Does the C partitoin refer to the entire disk?  I thought that I
>  > had read that somewhere... As I want my root and usr to be on the same
>  > partition I only have partitions a and b.  Do I *need* to create another
>  > partition to finish the install?
> 
> Yah... your disklabel ought to have a "c" partition which represents
> the entire disk.  This is actually farily important...
> 
> ...and, looking at sdstrategy(), I think there's a bug here that I want
> to fix... Basically, the MI sd driver doesn't do partition translation
> iff the partition is RAW_PART (i.e. "c").  Unfortunately, the hp300
> doesn't use the MI SCSI code (yet) ... and it looks like we _always_ do
> partition translation... so, if you get a screwey offset/size for the "c"
> partition, you could really lose, not being able to write a new disklabel.
	Oh, would this be related to my previous inability to write a new
disklabel (or even zap it) after messing up the disk label once.. it would
say "bad partition" after telling it the sd3 disk....

> 
> I suppose I ought to fix that...
> 
> In the mean time, you should be able to get SYS_INST to zap the disklabel
> for you, so you can write a "c" partition.
> 
> Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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