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From: Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
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Subject: sysinstall disklabel editor fails on post-install config
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>Number:         53839
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): disklabel editor fails on post-install config
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    brucec
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 27 06:30:13 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    Mon Apr 26 17:37:51 UTC 2010
>Last-Modified:  Mon Apr 26 17:37:51 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Brian Candler
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:


	
>Description:

On an existing system, attempting to use /stand/sysinstall to configure a
second IDE drive errors out with

"MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype -"

(a pain for me as I could never understand the documentation for the
command-line disklabel editor :-)

	
>How-To-Repeat:

Add second IDE drive (/dev/ad2)

/stand/sysinstall
  [C]onfigure
  [F]disk
  select ad2
  [C]reate slice
     select default size
     select default partition type (165)
  [W]rite, select Yes I'm sure
  [Q]uit
  [S]tandard MBR

That bit works. Now:

  [L]abel
  [C]reate
     accept default size
     [F]S
     choose a mount point, e.g. /v
  [W]rite, select Yes I'm sure

produces the following error:

Doing newfs -b 16384 -f 2048  ...
MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype -
  


	
>Fix:

	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: kris 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jul 18 15:58:36 PDT 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Assign to qa group 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=53839 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: qa->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: jhb 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Aug 2 18:54:43 GMT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Canonicalize responsible. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=53839 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 25 11:25:08 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
I suspect this bug will have disappeared with the move to devfs in 5.x. 
Did you ever see the problem again on newer FreeBSD releases? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=53839 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec  
Responsible-Changed-By: brucec 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Apr 25 11:26:22 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=53839 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 26 17:27:24 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
Reporter no longer has the hardware to replicate the issue. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=53839 
>Unformatted:
