Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:53:07 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware
Message-ID:  <20001030055307.B41250@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010271110.NAA26088@siri.nordier.com>; from rnordier@nordier.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:10:56PM %2B0200
References:  <200010271034.e9RAY9J04147@earth.backplane.com> <200010271110.NAA26088@siri.nordier.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:10:56PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote:
> Just doing the disklabel -w -r followed by the disklabel -B is creating
> a dangerously dedicated disk, 

Actually this is a "fully dedicated" disk.  (made to look like a 50MB or
so disk to M$ products)
Sysinstall is used to create a "dangeriously dedicated" disk (when not
create slices.

Yep, on the i386 we actually have three kinds of disklables.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20001030055307.B41250>