Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:39:54 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: fclift@verio.net (Fred Clift) Cc: fclift@verio.net (Fred Clift), dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux Message-ID: <200010272139.XAA32861@siri.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010271539300.21278-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com> from "Fred Clift" at Oct 27, 2000 03:44:01 PM
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Fred Clift wrote: > > > > > > Why not edit the partition table after boot1 gets installed? > > > > Because you can never make it valid. By keeping it the same set of > > illegal values, at least the system can recognise it. > > > What do you mean it can't be made valid? fdisk -u and a few keystrokes > later and I have a valid partition table... Whats wrong with it? Really, > if I'm being dense, sorry -- perhaps I just dont under stand yet -- please > be patient with me :) If the PC partition (slice) includes boot1, it is invalid. A slice should can't include its own MBR. If the BSD partition excludes boot1, it is invalid. A partition can't exclude its own boot blocks. Just because fdisk is happy, doesn't mean it's valid. Just because it works (for you), doesn't mean it's valid, either. :) > > > > A final point: > > > > o Don't use dangerously dedicated mode. > > I'd love to but the tools for automated installs in non-dedicated mode > dont really exist in a supported way. One of the things that was pointed > out in the thread is that disklabel doesn't work inside an fdisk slice. Disklabel really needs to be rewritten. > I could use expect to manipulate sysinstall? So, for now, I use > dangerously dedicated installs with a hacked fake partition table to work > around the broken bioses I use. I just might start using program posted > in this thread that lets you do labels right in lieu of anything else, or > perhaps I'll fix disklabel to work right as was suggeseted elsewhere. Don't sysinstall work in a script mode? I've never used it, but I thought it did. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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