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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:30:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RE: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALin
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001027113006.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com>

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On 27-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote:
>     The real question is:  Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated
>     mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition?  Everything
>     I try using fdisk and disklabel fails.  fdisk will create a normal 
>     freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it.

See my previous e-mail about my slicelabel utility^Whack.  If you use
sysinstall you can label the disk as well. :)

>     Beyond that, our 'dangerously dedicated' disk label should at least
>     contain reasonable values -- be correct enough to pass BIOS muster.
>     I don't know enough about the partition format to know where the
>     BIOS calculation is failing.

Errr, the dangerously dedicated label can't contain reasonable values
because it violates assumptions made by other pieces of the PC architecture.

>                                               -Matt

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