From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 28 19: 0:10 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 CA52337B479; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:00:01 -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 e9T1xKf27087; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:59:20 -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: <200010282228.e9SMSFu67012@earth.backplane.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:00:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Matt Dillon Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Matthew Jacob Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote: >:> > After fdisk creating partitions try, >:> > >:> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16 >: >:Hmm. Isn't the only thing that's suppose to really work is >: >:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=16 >: >:(which doesn't always work on Alpha yet) >: >:I'm missing some context, so forgive me if this is a stupid question? > > Ah, the joys of fdisk and disklabels. I've learned more in the last > two days then I ever really wanted to find out :-) I think there is more there than anyone wants to find out. Can you commit your fixes to make disklabel label virgin slices please? -- 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