From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 30 5:54:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149C137B479; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:54:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id FAA54210; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:53:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Robert Nordier Cc: Matt Dillon , Terry Lambert , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware Message-ID: <20001030055307.B41250@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200010271034.e9RAY9J04147@earth.backplane.com> <200010271110.NAA26088@siri.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010271110.NAA26088@siri.nordier.com>; from rnordier@nordier.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:10:56PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:10:56PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Just doing the disklabel -w -r followed by the disklabel -B is creating > a dangerously dedicated disk, Actually this is a "fully dedicated" disk. (made to look like a 50MB or so disk to M$ products) Sysinstall is used to create a "dangeriously dedicated" disk (when not create slices. Yep, on the i386 we actually have three kinds of disklables. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message