Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 18:00:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: root@io.cts.com Subject: Re: How to write -current bootcode to disk? Message-ID: <199504301600.SAA06145@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504301242.WAA26064@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 30, 95 10:42:36 pm
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> >Does this look good to you? > > >io[511]# disklabel -B wd0 > >Warning, revolutions/minute 0 > >super block size 0 > >io[512]# _ > > Not te right. `disklabel -B' only writes the boot blocks, not the label. Unfortunately, it even refuses to write the bootcode if the label is bogus. I've once filed a problem report for this, but the problem lies rather in the bogus label itself. (Given the huge amount of libdisk commits now, i hope this will be solved RSN. :) Thinking about it i noticed that the label is embedded in the boot code, so disklabel obviously wants to be safe and does not change anything in case it discovered bogosities. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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