From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 19: 2:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608B537B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9S21Df00681; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010280136.e9S1a7H56416@earth.backplane.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:02:03 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Matt Dillon Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Cc: Terry Lambert , (Paul Saab) , (Danny Braniss) , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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 -- 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