From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 10:02:58 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 E74F237B405 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cyberonic.com (mail.cyberonic.com [4.17.179.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB3D43FAF for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (node-40244c0a.sfo.onnet.us.uu.net [64.36.76.10]) by mail.cyberonic.com (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h6EHU2cU029001; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:30:02 -0400 Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.9/8.11.6) id h6EH2uM1014515; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:02:56 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Ian Freislich Message-ID: <20030714170256.GV35337@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ian Freislich , Mark Murray , current@freebsd.org References: <200307141503.h6EF3wgG083328@grimreaper.grondar.org> <96193.1058201288@mci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <96193.1058201288@mci.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Mark Murray Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney 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 17:02:59 -0000 Ian Freislich wrote this message on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 18:48 +0200: > 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. One thing you might of been missing is making sure that the type in the disklabel was set properly. For scsi, it must be SCSI, and for IDE it must be IDE or ESDI. I had problems with this too. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."