From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 09:48:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F9437B405 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailspool.ops.uunet.co.za (mailspool.ops.uunet.co.za [196.7.0.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6678043FAF for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:48:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ianf@mci.com) Received: from copernicus.so.cpt1.za.uu.net ([196.30.72.32]) by mailspool.ops.uunet.co.za with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19c6Uj-0004lt-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:48:09 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mci.com) by copernicus.so.cpt1.za.uu.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19c6Ui-000P1W-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:48:08 +0200 To: Mark Murray References: <200307141503.h6EF3wgG083328@grimreaper.grondar.org> From: Ian Freislich X-image-url: http://www.digs.iafrica.com/gallery/ian-small.gif X-BOFH: true X-LART: Depleted uranium X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. You have been deleted Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:48:08 +0200 Message-ID: <96193.1058201288@mci.com> Sender: ianf@mci.com cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:48:21 -0000 Mark Murray wrote: > Hi Ian! > > Ian Freislich writes: > > I've used fdisk to create one slice (da0s1). I then used bsdlabel > > to make make the partitions a, b, e and f. Then to put the boot > > block on 'disklabel -B /dev/da0s1' - if I 'disklabel -B /dev/da0' > > it trashes the label. Then I copy all my filesystems off the IDE > > drive I'm trying to rid myself of onto the SCSI disk. When I tell > > the BIOS to boot off SCSI, it complains 'Missing Operating System'. > > Then, when you fdisk, make damn sure that the probed geometry is used. > After that, you shouldn't have probelms. If that fixes your problem, > please report it in detail to phk@freebsd.org so we can get a more > permanent fix. I've just tried this dd'ing /dev/zero over the front of the disk first to no avail (the probed geometry is the geometry that fdisk used anyway). I also tried your much loved ficticious geometry of 255H 64S and that didn't work. It's a RPITA. In the end I dangerously dedicated the disk and that works. Ian