Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:22:31 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: imp@village.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" Message-ID: <3520.933924151@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:18:01 %2B1000." <199908060718.RAA09944@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199908060718.RAA09944@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans 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. > >That may be because you forgot to supply the -r or -B args to disklabel, >[...] No it is because the fool BIOS belives the 50000 in the MBR. -- 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
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