Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:53:52 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should fdisk -BI still work? Message-ID: <20030702135352.GA14921@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20030701152011.GA14768@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20030701091548.GA63084@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20030701152011.GA14768@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:20:11AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:15:49AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Should "fdisk -BI ad0" still work on current? I have a script that I use > > to prepare flash disks that have worked for a long time on older versions > > of FreeBSD, but it seems a little broken on -current. It actually started > > with the one from Warner's site people.../~imp/diskprep.pl and tweaked it > > over time to keep it running. > > > > On current I get an error when doing "fdisk -BI ad0": > > > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > > > > So how is one supposed to create a FreeBSD slice nowadays from a script? > > I'm not using -BI, but I am using -I in a version of diskprep. Are you > sure you don't have any slices (or partitions inside those slices) open? > I remember getting all sorts of weird errors when I forgot about that > while developing my new scripts. Sorry guys, false alarm. There was something wrong with that flash disk. It probed ok, but ignored writes to the first sector. :-/ I tried with a different one and it is working now. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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