[SunHELP] disklabel problem: FIXED

[Chad A. Chance]

Thought I would send this out in case any body else has this problem.

The problem was that the drive had been low level formated at some odd block
size(Damn OEM drives, knew they were cheap for some reason). I threw it in a
Solaris machine and ran format on it, autoconfigure failed on it, I then
edited the drive params putting in whatever values I felt like, exited
format, ran format again and this time autoconfigure worked since it had
some vales it knew what to do with. It then automaticly reformated the drive
with a 512 block size, after this I was able to label the disk and continue
on with my BSD install, Happy Me 8-)

Chad

-----Original Message-----

I am getting the dreaded:

disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Label magic number or checksum is wrong!
(disklabel or kernel is out of date?)
disklabel: unable to write label

So far all I have turned up on my searchs have to do with the partitions on
cylinder boundaries, with the newer version of disklabel, this isn't a
problem, it automaticlly rounds to the nearest cylinder.  I have also tried
manually setting the partition to a cylinder boundry as well, but no dice.

Any other ideas than the cylinder boundry thing?