Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:31:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fdisk & disklabel dont work! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104100130240.72640-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010410113808.K64481@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > This is great, except the system will then refuse to boot. PXE boot > > crashes and SCSI boot hangs, and the explanation I can find is that > > the Adaptec controller is pissed off about the dangerously dedicated > > mode and ends up diving by zero. > > That's maybe the explanation you can find, but I doubt it's correct. > I have lots of dedicated installations running with Adaptec host > adaptors, and it works fine. But there are other Adaptec controllers (eg, those built on the Intel L440GX+ motherboard) that do _not_ work in a dedicated situation. My advice is to play it safe and put a proper slice table on. fdisk -I is quite handy for this, assuming there's nothing on the disk you care about. :) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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