Date: 27 Oct 2000 18:49:37 -0400 From: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux Message-ID: <ybusnphoq66.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> In-Reply-To: Robert Nordier's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:39:54 %2B0200 (SAST)" References: <200010272139.XAA32861@siri.nordier.com>
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Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> writes:
>> > 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.
Few truer statements have ever been made...
>> 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.
It does work in a scripted mode, however the documentation on it is
close to non-existant; arguments are case-sensitive, etc. I was working to
migrate data to disks/partitions of different sizes, and had to read lots
of the sysinstall/disklabel source, and on top of that had to hack
sysinstall in order to get it to work at all for my purpose. Ugh.
--
Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
rjesup@wgate.com
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