From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Aug 24 01:12:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15092 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 01:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nanguo.chalmers.com.au (gateway.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15067 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 01:12:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@chalmers.com.au) Received: from chalmers.com.au (carbon.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.26]) by nanguo.chalmers.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA09398 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:10:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <35E1211B.711998CD@chalmers.com.au> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:15:23 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Trying to set up a bootable, boot partition. SCSI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there any way of setting up a boot/root partition using the disklabel procedures, on a SCSI drive anyway, or can it only be done using the sysinstall/fdisk utility? The process of ; I used the method as described in the manual, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2 bs=1k count=1 disklabel -Brw sd2 auto disklabel -e sd2 although it sets up a drive that can be used as, in this case, the third drive in the chain, still doesn't set it up with an active/boot sector. In other words, placing the drive in SCSI #0 position, as the boot drive, sd0, simply doesn't work. Although the BIOS sees the drive of course, it wont boot. Now, what I'm trying to discover, is, is it a REQUIREMENT that sysinstall/fdisk be used on FreeBSD to set up an active/boot sector? Thanks Bob -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message