From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Apr 16 12:32:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nps.k12.va.us (mailmx.nps.k12.va.us [216.54.48.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C72037B416 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gateway-Message_Server by mail.nps.k12.va.us with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:31:56 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.5.1 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:31:51 -0400 From: "Adam Crosby" To: Subject: I figured it out [was devfs and disklabeling] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On my hardware, at least, you have to run the=20 dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/ad0 count=3D16 before you disklabel it. although I /think/ I understand what that does, I'm not quite sure why it = was neccesary? =20 It writes '0' to the first 16 blocks of the disk (the mbr or some such?). = Then, disklabel -BRr ad0 /tmp/label (saved a copy of my previous disklabel)= creates the bootblock, and the disklabel on the disk? Will -B not = overwrite the first 16 blocks automagically? Or am I completely missing = the ball here? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message