From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 1 23:45: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles512.castles.com [208.214.165.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C4814F49 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 23:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01900; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 23:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908020639.XAA01900@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Mike Smith , Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 08:38:56 +0200." <22942.933575936@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 23:39:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <199908020630.XAA01845@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> In message <199908020207.MAA23787@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: > >> > >> >All of the above only work for the easy case where the whole disk is > >> >being labelled. In general, the disk size must be reduced to the slice > >> >size before applying a label to a slice. > >> > >> And that is the problem, it seems that "dangerously dedicated" doesn't > >> boot anymore... > > > >It never did, on many hardware variants. Use "truly dedicated" > >instead, which should still work fine. > > My semantics may be wrong on these two: what I'm talking about is > what is in handbook chapter 8 "Using command line utilities " gives > you a disk which doesn't boot. Ok; of those two examples, the first should give you a truly dedicated disk. (You can only generate a "dangerously dedicated" disk with sysinstall.) What fails? Can you be more specific? How recent are your boot1/boot2 blocks? I would be inclined to dd at least 8k over the front of the disk myself, but I don't think that's relevant in your case. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message