Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:35:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? Message-ID: <19970421203543.QF50498@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970421133906.3067A-100000@dolphin.inna.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Apr 21, 1997 13:41:07 -0400 References: <E0wIpNr-0007gZ-00@rover.village.org> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970421133906.3067A-100000@dolphin.inna.net>
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I've missed this part in Warner's posting: > > P.S. I wasted several hours wondering why my new machine wouldn't boot > > off of its new disk. Turns out thats because the "TYPE" field in the > > label wasn't SCSI, so it installed IDE boot blocks and paniced when it > > tried to mount root. disklabel should know better. And don't even > > get me started on fdisk... Bah, you should at least do your homework first. :-) That's not disklabel itself, there's only one kind of bootblocks any- way. The bootloader itself picks the disk type from the label, and decides which will become the controller for the root f/s. This also took me quite some time to figure out once, but this was with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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