From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 23 10:49:25 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFA014CEC; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA10338; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:49:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Warner Losh Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:42:11 MDT." <199908231742.LAA40179@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:49:14 +0200 Message-ID: <10336.935430554@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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