Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:52:14 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <200010301352.e9UDqgG09740@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:07:54 %2B0100." <20001029150754.A569@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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In message <20001029150754.A569@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Michel Talon writes: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > >> Everything > > >> I try using fdisk and disklabel fails. fdisk will create a normal > > >> freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it. > > > > > > After fdisk creating partitions try, > > > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16 > > > > > > Then disklabel -r -w and disklabel -B > > > > Nope, I tried that. Without Dillon's patch, disklabel cannot create > > a virgin disklabel on a slice. Period. > > > > I have recently created a disklabel on a slice of an ata disk with disklabel. > Of course i had to create an entry in /etc/disktab to do that, but encountere > d > no other problem. I am sure i didn't do it with sysinstall because my > sysinstall was broken at the time, so i did experiment with fdisk and > disklabel. I must confess that i have also tried to disklabel a zip on > da1s4 and was rewarded by > da1s4: device not configured > Then i ran fdisk to exchange s1 and s4 and disklabel succeeded. This was two > days ago, on a 4.1 system. Of course if you are speaking of > disklabel .... auto, you are right, i presume. I think it's coming back to me. The Berkeley disklabel with auto never did work. Another reason why the instructor of the Digital OSF/1 course told us to create a disktab entry for non-Digital disks or better yet just buy Digital disks, emphasis on buy of course. (Sorry, it's been a while and I've forgotten a lot. I usually get a junior team member to install new systems and disks for me). Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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