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[alex@milivojevic.org]

I had trouble with this on two systems, one was sparc64 (Ultra 150), one was
sparc (SS5).

When partitioning disk, disklabel sometimes gets in trouble.  The latest is SS5
system (that previously had Solaris installed on the disk).  I've booted off
CD, OpenBSD loaded fine, I've choose to partition the disk, was able to print
old (created under Solaris) disklabel, and than selected D (to select default
OpenBSD label) and created some partitions.  Once I attempted to write it to
disk, I got:

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(disklabel or kernel is out of date?)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

Installation procedes fine, but somehow I have a nasty feeling that machine will
not boot when install is done...

On the U150, the problem was when I was running disklabel on RAIDframe device
(don't remember all gory details anymore).

Is disklabel simply problematic under Sparc(64), or am I simply lucky?

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