From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 28 14:58:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8359237B4C5; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9SLw8f22894; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010281418.e9SEImB08772@cwsys.cwsent.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:59:01 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , hackers@FreeBSD.org, Matt Dillon Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Oct-00 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon > writes: >> :Do you have dangerously dedicated mode on by chance? Some >> :SCSI BIOS's _will_ crash with this if you use dangerously >> :dedicated mode. >> >> Yup. >> >> The real question is: Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated >> mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition? >> Everything >> I try using fdisk and disklabel fails. fdisk will create a normal >> freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it. > > After fdisk creating partitions try, > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16 > > Then disklabel -r -w and disklabel -B Nope, I tried that. Without Dillon's patch, disklabel cannot create a virgin disklabel on a slice. Period. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message