Re: Old BPB too big, use -f

2019-12-11 Thread Hauke Fath
On 2019-12-10 18:13, Martin Husemann wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:19:10PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote: I tried setting up a gpt/gpt raid1 from sysinst a few weeks ago, and it dumped core pretty quickly. Is this a known issue? No - how did you do it? (Just a rough sketch of the process should

Re: Old BPB too big, use -f

2019-12-10 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:19:10PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote: > I tried setting up a gpt/gpt raid1 from sysinst a few weeks ago, and it > dumped core pretty quickly. Is this a known issue? No - how did you do it? (Just a rough sketch of the process should be enough to reproduce it). Martin

Re: Old BPB too big, use -f

2019-12-10 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 05:10:35PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:26:35PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0a bs=1m count=20 > > Thanks. But the same error after that. I happened to install debian Linux while trying out many things. Afterwards I

Re: Old BPB too big, use -f

2019-12-10 Thread Hauke Fath
On 2019-12-10 12:40, Mayuresh wrote: 9.0RC1 installer has feel of bugs, it occasionally ends in segmentation violation also - no precise description for PR, I think it was when trying to edit MBR partition sizes. I tried setting up a gpt/gpt raid1 from sysinst a few weeks ago, and it dumped co

Re: Old BPB too big, use -f

2019-12-10 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:26:35PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0a bs=1m count=20 Thanks. But the same error after that. 9.0RC1 installer has feel of bugs, it occasionally ends in segmentation violation also - no precise description for PR, I think it was when tryi

Re: Old BPB too big, use -f

2019-12-10 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 04:53:40PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > Looks like this is discussed before, but I am unclear about how to go > about it when one comes across this problem. > > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2015/01/22/msg026532.html > > It's a new laptop with no other OS or data

Old BPB too big, use -f

2019-12-10 Thread Mayuresh
Looks like this is discussed before, but I am unclear about how to go about it when one comes across this problem. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2015/01/22/msg026532.html It's a new laptop with no other OS or data to preserve. What is it that -f will do that I need to worry about an