From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 5 23:40:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6714314D20 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:40:28 -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 IAA03127; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:38:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Warner Losh Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:17:56 MDT." <199908052217.QAA12736@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 08:38:12 +0200 Message-ID: <3125.933921492@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199908052217.QAA12736@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <19808.933517192@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >: It seems that our new boot blocks doesn't like the taste of disks >: prepared according to the meagre information we have in the handbook. > >How does this script differ from 'disklabel -w wd0 auto'? It does do >the fdisk stuff (your script, not the disklabel command). It differs in that you can boot from the disk afterwards with my script, you cant with disklabel -w wd0 auto. -- 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message