Re: 10.0 - Installer newfs segfaults on SS2

[vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On Sep 1, 2024, at 11:50 AM, Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hello.  I think what we're interested in is the contents of the disklabel, which should be
> written to the disk before newfs runs, but after you've zeroed it with dd.  Have you verified,
> with disklabel -r the contents of the disklabel on the media itself from the shell prompt?
> That should show you the partition table for the media.  Based on your description of the
> problem, I'd say, the disklabel isn't getting written to the media for some reason, which is
> causing newfs to bomb out before it does anything useful.  Obviously, it should give an error
> message, but probably no one thought newfs would ever run against a blank disk.

So I ran disklabel -r on it and the output was identical to what I previously posted.  -r is the default behavior with no args right ?

In any case - I would say that yes the disklabel is being written.