Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:30:06 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RE: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALin Message-ID: <XFMail.001027113006.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com>
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On 27-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote: > The real question is: Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated > mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition? Everything > I try using fdisk and disklabel fails. fdisk will create a normal > freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it. See my previous e-mail about my slicelabel utility^Whack. If you use sysinstall you can label the disk as well. :) > Beyond that, our 'dangerously dedicated' disk label should at least > contain reasonable values -- be correct enough to pass BIOS muster. > I don't know enough about the partition format to know where the > BIOS calculation is failing. Errr, the dangerously dedicated label can't contain reasonable values because it violates assumptions made by other pieces of the PC architecture. > -Matt -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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