Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:00:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. Message-ID: <199507122000.NAA18575@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199507121826.MAA01922@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jul 12, 95 12:26:44 pm
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> > : Please, valid and correct partition tables are _critical_ to making > : sure Microslop code does not wipe you out!!! I think I'll down grade > : to DOS 5.0, at least that install had a clue :-) > > Is there some way to write a valid partion table to BSD only disks? > Wouldn't that solve the problem, or am I dreaming... Problem is that boot1 lives in sector 0 in this case, so anytime you install new boot blocks you end up with a 50K not quite right bogus partition table from the boot1 code. Newfs needs fixed to deal with the fact it _must_ preserve the existing partition table if installing boot code to physical sector 0 of the disk. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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