Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:48:08 +0200 From: Ian Freislich <ianf@za.uu.net> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable... Message-ID: <96193.1058201288@mci.com> References: <200307141503.h6EF3wgG083328@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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Mark Murray wrote: > Hi Ian! > > Ian Freislich writes: > > I've used fdisk to create one slice (da0s1). I then used bsdlabel > > to make make the partitions a, b, e and f. Then to put the boot > > block on 'disklabel -B /dev/da0s1' - if I 'disklabel -B /dev/da0' > > it trashes the label. Then I copy all my filesystems off the IDE > > drive I'm trying to rid myself of onto the SCSI disk. When I tell > > the BIOS to boot off SCSI, it complains 'Missing Operating System'. > > Then, when you fdisk, make damn sure that the probed geometry is used. > After that, you shouldn't have probelms. If that fixes your problem, > please report it in detail to phk@freebsd.org so we can get a more > permanent fix. 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. Ian
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