Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:38:10 +0200 From: Ian Freislich <ianf@za.uu.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable... Message-ID: <96605.1058204290@mci.com> References: <20030714170256.GV35337@funkthat.com>
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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
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