Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 02:13:40 +0300 (MSK) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin) Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@earth.backplane.com Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <200010282313.CAA21032@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001028145901.jhb@FreeBSD.org> from "John Baldwin" at "Oct 28, 0 02:59:01 pm"
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John Baldwin writes: > On 28-Oct-00 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > In message <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon > > writes: > >> :Do you have dangerously dedicated mode on by chance? Some > >> :SCSI BIOS's _will_ crash with this if you use dangerously > >> :dedicated mode. > >> > >> Yup. > >> > >> The real question is: Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated > >> mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition? > >> Everything > >> I try using fdisk and disklabel fails. fdisk will create a normal > >> freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it. > > > > After fdisk creating partitions try, > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16 > > > > Then disklabel -r -w and disklabel -B > Nope, I tried that. Without Dillon's patch, disklabel cannot create > a virgin disklabel on a slice. Period. I know English bad ... let me see ... what "virgin" mean ... See! disklabel CAN create a virgin disklabel on a slice. Period. just supply the real entry from disktab. For example disklabel -r -w ad0sX fd360 disklabel -e ad0sX works in any case. Yes, it is hack, I understand. And I use about 20 my own entryes in disktab for all slise sizes I ever use. This is not stright, but not annoy. What is real annoyance: it is impossible to read label twice if more then one label are present on a disk in DD mode. It is very bad because of bug in kernel, not userland. > -- > > 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 > -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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