From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 1 04:11:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA27396 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 04:11:09 -0700 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA27390 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 04:11:07 -0700 Received: from kanga.x.org by expo.x.org id AA14016; Fri, 1 Sep 95 07:10:35 -0400 Received: by kanga.x.org id AA06700; Fri, 1 Sep 95 07:10:33 EST Message-Id: <9509011110.AA06700@kanga.x.org> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk in 2.1.0--SNAP is broken In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 01 Sep 1995 08:22:01 +0200. <199509010622.IAA02594@uriah.heep.sax.de> Organization: X Consortium Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 07:10:32 EDT From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > But... Using fdisk I'm unable to set my OS/2 HPFS partition as bootable. > > fdisk -u -a /dev/r[sw]d0 > > (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. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY