From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 11:51:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06430 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA06421 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA29477 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:50:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA24226; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:35:43 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970421203543.QF50498@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:35:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Apr 21, 1997 13:41:07 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've missed this part in Warner's posting: > > P.S. I wasted several hours wondering why my new machine wouldn't boot > > off of its new disk. Turns out thats because the "TYPE" field in the > > label wasn't SCSI, so it installed IDE boot blocks and paniced when it > > tried to mount root. disklabel should know better. And don't even > > get me started on fdisk... Bah, you should at least do your homework first. :-) That's not disklabel itself, there's only one kind of bootblocks any- way. The bootloader itself picks the disk type from the label, and decides which will become the controller for the root f/s. This also took me quite some time to figure out once, but this was with FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)