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. -- 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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