Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:09:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: <flash@alaska.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Strange BTX halted error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105011107450.30516-100000@sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com> In-Reply-To: <200105011806.f41I6UN69612@earth.backplane.com>
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No, we don't use dangerously dedicated since the word "dangerous" was in it. Figured it might not be a good thing =) Thanks though. -gordon On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I was getting BTX halted failures due to BIOS confusion related to > dangerously dedicated partitions. It's what prompted me to fix the > disklabel code to allow boot blocks to be installed on slices. > > Unfortunately, the only way I could fix my particular problem was > to get rid of my dangerously dedicated partition which meant blowing > away the hard drive and repartitioning and relabeling it. > > The very last example, just before the SEE ALSO section for the > 'disklabel' manual page shows how to do this. But be warned: it blows > away the disk. > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE&format=html > > I do not know if my problem is the same as yours, so this could be all > for nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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