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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:12:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        (Paul Saab) <paul@mu.org>, (Danny Braniss) <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, (Matt Dillon) <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Subject:   Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001027171214.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200010272358.QAA02448@usr01.primenet.com>

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On 27-Oct-00 Terry Lambert wrote:
>>     Thanks for the program.
>> 
>>     I think, however, that the proper solution is to make disklabel work
>>     with slices.  We shouldn't need three programs to label a disk... 
>>     if fdisk and disklabel can't do the job then our distribution is broken.
>> 
>>     I am going to spend some time researching the problem to see if I can 
>>     come up with a 'disklabel' solution for labeling slices.  It would
>>     also be nice if someone could figure out why our 'dangerously dedicated'
>>     partition fails with some BIOSes ... it should be possible to fix it if
>>     someone could track down what exactly is causing the divide-by-0 !
> 
> I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I
> seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction...

Nope.

> In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition
> on all but one box of mine, and always have been.  I installed
> 4.1 on my laptop that way.

Sysinstall can create a disklabel inside of a MBR slice fine.  The
problem is that the disklabel(8) _program_ itself doesn't know how
to create a virgin disklabel for a MBR slice.

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