Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:18:18 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, "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: <200010301318.e9UDIdf05654@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:59:01 PDT." <XFMail.001028145901.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.001028145901.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, 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 tried it too. Looks like something has changed since I last labelled a disk over a year ago. This procedure used to work at one time. Prior to that the dd wasn't required. Sysinstall does work. Is there some way we could share code between sysinstall and disklabel? While sysinstall might be modified to keep up with changes in the kernel, disklabel would benefit too? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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