Bug 28204

Summary: vinum attempts to read DOS volumes and whines about it
Product: Base System Reporter: ahd <ahd>
Component: binAssignee: Greg Lehey <grog>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.3-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description ahd 2001-06-16 20:40:00 UTC
Issue vinum dumpconfig on a machine with a DOS partition, vinum whines
that it can't read the FreeBSD disklabel.  

   fdisk output:
   ******* Working on device /dev/da1 *******
   parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
   cylinders=2231 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

   Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
   parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
   cylinders=2231 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

   Media sector size is 512
   Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
   Information from DOS bootblock is:
   The data for partition 1 is:
   sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
       start 63, size 771057 (376 Meg), flag 0
	   beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
	   end: cyl 47/ sector 63/ head 254
   The data for partition 2 is:
   sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
       start 771120, size 35069895 (17123 Meg), flag 80 (active)
	   beg: cyl 48/ sector 1/ head 0;
	   end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
   The data for partition 3 is:
   <UNUSED>
   The data for partition 4 is:
   <UNUSED>

minerva,/home/ahd,84# vinum dumpconfig
Can't get label from /dev/da1s1c: Invalid argument (22)

Fix: 

Check type of disk before blindly reading the disk.
How-To-Repeat: 	See example above.
Comment 1 dd freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-06-19 02:34:53 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->grog

Over to maintainer.
Comment 2 Greg Lehey freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-06-19 02:37:23 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Problem solved.