From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 30 5:53:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377D437B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id FAA22643; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:52:56 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda22641; Mon Oct 30 05:52:55 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9UDqtH26335; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdv26333; Mon Oct 30 05:52:43 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id e9UDqgG09740; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:52:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200010301352.e9UDqgG09740@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdwF9734; Mon Oct 30 05:52:14 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Michel Talon Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:07:54 +0100." <20001029150754.A569@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:52:14 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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