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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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