From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 23 03:17:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA20089 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:17:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA20082; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id VAA22545; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:47:16 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611231117.VAA22545@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-Reply-To: <96Nov22.231207pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 22, 96 11:12:07 pm" To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:47:15 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Fenner stands accused of saying: > decided to install 2.2-ALPHA on it. Although the new install went > reasonably well, it won't reboot the new disk. I used the "dangerously > dedicated" mode, so that I wouldn't have to deal with partition tables > and weird track values and stuff. Woo, was I wrong. The very first You are using an NCR controller, or some other SCSI controller that reads the partition table out of the MBR. The 'dangerously dedicated' mode won't work with these controllers, as they become _very_ confused by it. > Bill -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[