Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:49:14 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c Message-ID: <10336.935430554@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:42:11 MDT." <199908231742.LAA40179@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199908231742.LAA40179@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <10228.935429897@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >: fdisk -e -v da0 >: >: Now I just need to get disklabel(8) to understand how to: >: >: disklabel -r -w da0s1 auto >: >: (unless somebody else has better time PLEASE ????) > >Last time I tried to do this, I ran into the problem that I could not >find out the disks' geometry. At least what the BIOS thought the >geometry was so that it would acutally create a bootable disk. We shouldn't need to care about the geometry in disklabel, as long as we have the size right, but I suspect getting it to work is a matter of getting the kernel to produce a empty disklabel for FreeBSD slices without a disklabel on the disk. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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