NetBSD Problem Report #21293
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:14:01 +0000 (UTC)
From: douginhanoi@yahoo.com
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Subject: boot partition too full, cannot install
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>Number: 21293
>Category: port-sgimips
>Synopsis: boot partition too full, cannot install
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: port-sgimips-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Apr 23 20:15:04 +0000 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified: Sun Apr 30 09:16:10 +0000 2006
>Originator: Doug McLean
>Release: NetBSD-1.6 current as of April 2003
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
SGI MIPS IP22, R4600
>Description:
While NetBSD's sysinit was trying to format the partitions, it
tried to run /usr/mdec/sgivol -f -w /usr/mdec/boot boot /dev/sd0,
but showed an error saying something like:
sgivol is 500000 bytes
no space left
>How-To-Repeat:
This seems to only happen with used SGI Hard drives that
ran IRIX on them. According to the port-sgimips developer,
IRIX crams the boot partition with a lot of data, so there's
no room left for anything else.
>Fix:
From the sysinit installation menu, I went into the shell
and ran this command:
/usr/mdec/sgivol -d /dev/sd0
This cleared out the boot partition and the installation
proceeded normally!
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: port-sgimips-maintainer->soren
Responsible-Changed-By: perry
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Apr 23 23:28:29 UTC 2003
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Soren is the sgimips maintainer.
Responsible-Changed-From-To: soren->port-sgimips-maintainer
Responsible-Changed-By: soren
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Mar 27 13:21:30 UTC 2004
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Back to the role account.
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