On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:09:58AM -0600, Orestes Leal R. wrote:
> This was the procedure I follow in 4.3 sucessfully, the same I did
> in 4.8 and doesn't work:
>
> -bash-3.2# fdisk -i sd1
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> ------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n]
> MBR is unchanged
> -bash-3.2# fdisk -i sd1
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> ------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
> -bash-3.2# disklabel -E sd1
> # Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 32 size 2097120
> Treating sectors 32-2097152 as the OpenBSD portion of the disk.
> You can use the 'b' command to change this.
>
> Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
> >a a
> offset: [32]
> size: [2097120]
> FS type: [4.2BSD]
> >q
> Write new label?: [y] y
> -bash-3.2# newfs /dev/sd1a
> newfs: : /dev/sd1a: not a character-special device
This is not 4.8. This warning has been "upgraded" to an error now.
Read my previous reply and follow the advise in it.
-Otto
>
> /dev/sd1a: 1024.0MB in 2097120 sectors of 512 bytes
> 6 cylinder groups of 202.47MB, 12958 blocks, 25984 inodes each
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> 32, 414688, 829344, 1244000, 1658656, 2073312,
>
> >>>no, not really different (though some things are more precise now)
> >>>So...the basics:
> >>>What did you do?
> >>>What did you expect to happen?
> >>>What did you see happen?
> >>>Nick.
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> >
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