From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 30 10:47:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BC137B4CF; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:47:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9UIkff76251; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001030055307.B41250@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:47:38 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , Terry Lambert , Matt Dillon , Robert Nordier Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Oct-00 David O'Brien wrote: > 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. Actually, no, just two. :( I did some more checking later on a few months ago and found that 'disklabel auto' == 'dangerously dedicated' mode. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message