From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 10:38:38 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 061A437B401 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:38:38 -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 E404D43F93 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:38:34 -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 19c7HC-0005ib-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:38:14 +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 19c7H8-000P8A-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:38:10 +0200 To: John-Mark Gurney References: <20030714170256.GV35337@funkthat.com> 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 19:38:10 +0200 Message-ID: <96605.1058204290@mci.com> Sender: ianf@mci.com 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 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 17:38:38 -0000 John-Mark Gurney wrote: > 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. I think all that stuff is no longer in the disklabel: [brane-dead] / # disklabel /dev/da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 262144 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 32776 b: 1048576 262144 swap c: 8888924 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit e: 2097152 1310720 4.2BSD 1024 8192 46248 f: 5481052 3407872 4.2BSD 1024 8192 46248 Ian