From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 4 20:58:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F00A37B496 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f353wCR50201; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:58:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: dannyman Cc: Subject: Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way In-Reply-To: <20010404181245.P40739@dell.dannyland.org> Message-ID: X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > Ooookay ... > > So, I gave up on sysinstall and wrote a script that beautifully runs disklabel > and newfs slices for me, writing an fstab and installing packages after > starting off a PXE boot. It is just COOL! Yup :) > Now all my test machines wont boot. The hard disk boot just doesn't DO > anything, and the pxeboot crashes once it sees the SCSI disk. Best I can > tell from some Deja searches, this is related to the Adaptec controller > reviling at the thought of a "dangeously dedicated" disk. Yup. > But I can not for the life of me figure out how to do it the right way. fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN PAGE FIRST!) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message