From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 22:31:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21788 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12504 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 06:30:37 +0100 (MET) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA18262 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:30:38 +0200 (MDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08899 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:30:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199804090530.HAA06282@intern> Subject: How to make a non-dangerously dedicated disk? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:30:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As the subject says: I want to create a non-dangerously dedicated disk but without using sysinstall. The reason is, I want to make an exact copy of the present system (2.2.6) but can't use the dangerously dedicated mode because the new disk will go into another broken Siemens PC. Normally, I do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd1 count=100 disklabel -wrB sd1 auto disklabel -e sd1 newfs, ... which creates a dangerously dedicated disk and all is well but this disk won't boot on a Siemens system (Read error, because of their "famous" Phoenix BIOS). A disk with a non-dangerously dedicated layout works here but I would like to create it using dd, fdisk, disklabel,... Thanks, -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message