Re: 10.0 - Installer newfs segfaults on SS2
vom513 <[email protected]>
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> On Sep 1, 2024, at 11:50 AM, Brian Buhrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. I think what we're interested in is the contents of the disklabel, which should be > written to the disk before newfs runs, but after you've zeroed it with dd. Have you verified, > with disklabel -r the contents of the disklabel on the media itself from the shell prompt? > That should show you the partition table for the media. Based on your description of the > problem, I'd say, the disklabel isn't getting written to the media for some reason, which is > causing newfs to bomb out before it does anything useful. Obviously, it should give an error > message, but probably no one thought newfs would ever run against a blank disk. So I ran disklabel -r on it and the output was identical to what I previously posted. -r is the default behavior with no args right ? In any case - I would say that yes the disklabel is being written.