Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:09:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, (Danny Braniss) <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, (Paul Saab) <paul@mu.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <XFMail.001027180901.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010280031.e9S0VCl55795@earth.backplane.com>
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On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote: >:> 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/ > > The patchset I put on the lists earlier today will allow disklabel > to install a virgin label on a slice. Did it not get out? As matters > currently stand, disklabel can only edit a preexisting label on a slice. If your patch works it looks great to me. I was just referring to our currently checked in code in disklabel(8). :) > I'll post it again... included below (this time without the file > descriptor cruft that snuck into my previous posting of the patch). With > the patch you can do this: I did wonder about the file descriptor patch the first go-round... :) > # optional dd if you are paranoid > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4 > fdisk -I da0 > disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto > > That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to > do is initialize a label on a slice. Yes, this is definitely the desired behavior. -- 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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