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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:47:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
Subject:   Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001030104738.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001030055307.B41250@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote:
> 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.

Actually, no, just two. :(  I did some more checking later on a few
months ago and found that 'disklabel auto' == 'dangerously dedicated'
mode.

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