Unable to write data on disk

[Piggley Winks]

Hello folks,

I am experiencing the same problems as Kwok's when I was installing
FreeBSD 6.1 on my Itanium machine.

Here is the information on how I was going to partition my drive.

PartMount Size Newfs
------------- ----- -------------
da1p1 <none>99MB EFI
da1p2 <none>400MB EFI
da1p4 /1024MB UFS2   Y
da1p5 /var1024MB UFS2+S Y
da1p6 /tmp1024MB UFS2+S Y
da1p7 /usr20480MB UFS2+S Y
da1p8 swap16384MB SWAP


I also notice the errata posted on May 27, 2006 about a similar
problem for the Alpha platform.
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/errata.html) I tried the
workaround solution, i.e. running disklabel(8) manually from the
Fixit# prompt. For the Holographic shell, it didn't work. Then, I
tried the option of "live" filesystem CDROM.

I ran the following command as stated on the errata (da1 is the SCSI
drive where I want to have my FreeBSD installation).
% bsdlabel -rw da1 auto

Then, I reboot the machine with disc 1. After I entered into the
"create BSD partition" screen, unlike what is described in the errata,
I couldn't see any change on the partitions. The only thing that I
could do was to partition my hard drive in the way I want. However, I
still got the same error message when sysinstall was about to write
the partition information onto the drive.


ERROR: Unable to write data to disk da1!


Can anyone help please? Thank you very much!


Best,
McMullen