From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 09:41:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622E137B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C030D43F93 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6GGf0hR017905 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:41:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6GGewAx020656 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:40:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6GGevgt014415; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:40:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6GGevfS014414; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:40:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:40:57 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Pierrick Brossin Message-ID: <20030716164056.GU72706@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <1058339743.3f14fb9f3f7ac@www.swissgeeks.com> <20030716082226.GN72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <1058344752.3f150f30b2195@www.swissgeeks.com> <20030716085435.GP72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <3F14AEDA.40500@swissgeeks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F14AEDA.40500@swissgeeks.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.1-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: ticso@cicely.de cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:41:14 -0000 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:48:10AM +0000, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > > >You still have an fdisk table on the disk - just without partitions. > >In fact I don't know what detail sysinstall confuses - if I would then > >it should be easier to fix. > > Well I'm home and I first tried to "fdisk /mdr" the HD so the mbr is > emtpy. Didnt work. With fdsik /mbr you write an mbr - not zeros. Also you have an empty fdisk table - not a cleared block. > Then I decided to use my special (:D) IBM floppy which I use to low > level format HD or Zero fill HD. The low level format didn't work since > it's not an IBM HD I guess but the Zero Filling function worked. > But it's still the same thing, same error in the disklabel editor. >From within FreeBSD: dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 of=/dev/adn replace adn with ad0 or whatever your disk is named. > The HD is known to work perfectly. A friend of mine who was using > Windows XP on it gave it to me cause it was too small. What I wrote - sysinstalls stumbles over the contents on that disk. > Any other idea ? You need to get that fdisk table from the disk. You can't expect tools that handle fdisk partitions to wipe them. An empty fdisk table is still an fdisk table. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de