Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 07:10:32 EDT From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk in 2.1.0-<mumble>-SNAP is broken Message-ID: <9509011110.AA06700@kanga.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 01 Sep 1995 08:22:01 %2B0200. <199509010622.IAA02594@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> > But... Using fdisk I'm unable to set my OS/2 HPFS partition as bootable.
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> fdisk -u -a /dev/r[sw]d0
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> (Don't use the `d' parititon.)
Er, okay, that works. Don't know why that didn't occur to me, guess I'm
too set in my ways from 1.x and they way that it worked. So that raises
the next question, which is why was this changed from the way it worked
in 1.x, i.e. why did the 1.x fdisk know to use the raw device by default
but the 2.x fdisk does not? It doesn't follow the rule of least surprise.
:-)
FYI, even though it works I get the following message:
ioctl: DIOCWLABEL: operation not supported by device.
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Kaleb KEITHLEY
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