Subject: Re: kern/11900: disklabels are broken
To: Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/06/2001 15:44:32
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:34:36PM +1100, Geoff Wing wrote:
> Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> wrote:
> :>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 05 20:57:00 PST 2001
> :>Release: NetBSD-current (anon-cvs synced as of 10 minutes ago) jan 5 2001
> :Machine: i386
> : Something pretty bad just happened to "wd" disks. I don't recall
> : seeing a heads-up that disklabels were about to change in some
> : serious way.
>
> The heads-up was in tech-kern (i386 changed from 8 to 16 partitions).
>
> : $ disklabel wd0
> : disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> You need to cp src/etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV /dev/ and run it (at least for
> wd0 wd1 wd2 wd3) to make the extra character and block devices.
> You also need a kernel at least as current (which you do).
And you may also need to recompile disklabel, fdisk, etc ...
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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