Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:02:03 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, (Paul Saab) <paul@mu.org>, (Danny Braniss) <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <XFMail.001027190203.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010280136.e9S1a7H56416@earth.backplane.com>
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On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote: >:> # 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/ > > John, can you explain how the MBR bootstraps a slice? Should I make > disklabel zero-out the fdisk partition table area in the slice rather > then installing the dummy fdisk partition table? That is, for the > case where -B is used on a slice (da0s1) verses on the whole-disk (da0)? Just ignore the slice table within a slice. It is only used when boot1 is splatted over top of the MBR for the dangerously dedicated mode. It is unused and ignored otherwise. > -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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