From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 6 0:23:36 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 ECE1F14E9C for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 00:23:27 -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 JAA03522; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:22:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: imp@village.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:18:01 +1000." <199908060718.RAA09944@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:22:31 +0200 Message-ID: <3520.933924151@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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