From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 15:46:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DCD37B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jesup.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.26]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id VT2X0H2L; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:46:23 -0400 Reply-To: Randell Jesup To: Robert Nordier Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux References: <200010272139.XAA32861@siri.nordier.com> From: Randell Jesup Date: 27 Oct 2000 18:49:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: Robert Nordier's message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:39:54 +0200 (SAST)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Nordier writes: >> > o Don't use dangerously dedicated mode. >> >> I'd love to but the tools for automated installs in non-dedicated mode >> dont really exist in a supported way. One of the things that was pointed >> out in the thread is that disklabel doesn't work inside an fdisk slice. > >Disklabel really needs to be rewritten. Few truer statements have ever been made... >> I could use expect to manipulate sysinstall? So, for now, I use >> dangerously dedicated installs with a hacked fake partition table to work >> around the broken bioses I use. I just might start using program posted >> in this thread that lets you do labels right in lieu of anything else, or >> perhaps I'll fix disklabel to work right as was suggeseted elsewhere. > >Don't sysinstall work in a script mode? I've never used it, but I >thought it did. It does work in a scripted mode, however the documentation on it is close to non-existant; arguments are case-sensitive, etc. I was working to migrate data to disks/partitions of different sizes, and had to read lots of the sysinstall/disklabel source, and on top of that had to hack sysinstall in order to get it to work at all for my purpose. Ugh. -- Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94) rjesup@wgate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message