From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 9 1:50:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B44037B419 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 01:50:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id KAA23743 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:50:04 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB99LTB46175 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:21:29 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:21:29 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <20011209102129.F97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mail-Followup-To: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200112082356.fB8NuII32772@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20011209010912.F405A39EC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011209010912.F405A39EC@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 05:09:11PM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Peter Wemm wrote: > There shouldn't *be* bootblocks on non-boot disks. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da$n count=1 > > Dont use "disklabel -B -rw da$n auto". Use "disklabel -rw da$n auto". All my disks have bootblocks and (spare) boot partitions. All the bootblocks are DD mode. I don't see any point in using obsolete fdisk tables. (There's IMHO only one purpose obsolete fdisk tables are good for, co-operation with other operating systems in the same machine. None of my machines uses anything else than FreeBSD.) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message