Bug 251 - disklabel(8) refuses to install new bootstrap
Summary: disklabel(8) refuses to install new bootstrap
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: i386 (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 1995-03-18 00:30 UTC by Joerg Wunsch
Modified: 1995-03-18 00:30 UTC (History)
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Description Joerg Wunsch 1995-03-18 00:30:00 UTC 
When trying to install a new bootstrap program on a disk that has been
installed by sysinstall, disklabel(8) spits out two messages:

warning: revolutions/minute: 0
super block size: 0

and refuses to install the new boot program.
On another disk, the warning has been

partition d: extends past end of unit

we all know *why* this is, but disklabel should not refuse to work.

Fix: 

Not yet known.  The problem can be worked around by running disklabel -e
and fixing the values for rpm and interleave.
How-To-Repeat: 
Run ``disklabel -B <disk>'' on a disk that has been initialized by
sysinstall.
Comment 1 Joerg Wunsch freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1995-06-24 18:16:51 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed


Fixed by version 1.15 of libdisk/write_disk.c