Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:01:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: marcus@vastnet.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZIP disk booting in 4.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <14811.25195.154177.946578@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200010031224.IAA25114@mail.svr.vastnet.net> References: <200010031224.IAA25114@mail.svr.vastnet.net>
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marcus@vastnet.net writes: > > > Always glad to see people doing things differently. > > > > > It seems as if Zip disks must use the "c" partition to use the whole disk. > That's fine, > > Are you *sure* you have to use partition C to be the entire disk? That > > is the normal case, but it's not usually required. In particular, you > > should be able to make other partitions point to the entire drive - > > like the a partition. In fact, doing that and running off of it should > > work. > > > I can't give you the exact message at the moment, but I'll send it as soon as > I'm able. I get all sorts of "operation not supported" errors when trying to > make regular slices on the zip disk. Only disklabel operations at the "c" > level seem to be supported. Yuck. You're right - I'm getting the same message. However, the following let me use the a partition: # disklabel -r /dev/da2 > /tmp/jazzlabel [Edit jazzlabel, creating a copy of the c: line and calling it a:) # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da2 count=2 # disklabel -B -R -r da2 /tmp/jazzlabel # newfs /dev/da2a and it formatted it out to the right size. Doing a disklabel on the thing just shows an "a" partition, but I can mount it and it claims to have a gigabyte on it. I didn't fsck it, though. > > Failing that, what messages are you getting when you try and boot? > > > No error messages, it just doesn't take the boot sector. The Zip disk is > probed, and the light flashes briefly, but it goes right on through to the IDE > boot sector. Thanks for any input! :) That sounds like it might be a bios problem. Either that, or you aren't getting a boot sector written to the device. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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