Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:59:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <XFMail.001028145901.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010281418.e9SEImB08772@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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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. -- 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-stable" in the body of the message
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