From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 1 11:10:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com [209.247.77.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5319737B424 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 11:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gordont@bluemtn.net) Received: from localhost (gordont@localhost) by sdmail0.sd.bmarts.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/BMA1.1) with ESMTP id f41I98L41655; Tue, 1 May 2001 11:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:09:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow X-X-Sender: To: Matt Dillon Cc: , Subject: Re: Strange BTX halted error In-Reply-To: <200105011806.f41I6UN69612@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No, we don't use dangerously dedicated since the word "dangerous" was in it. Figured it might not be a good thing =) Thanks though. -gordon On Tue, 1 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > I was getting BTX halted failures due to BIOS confusion related to > dangerously dedicated partitions. It's what prompted me to fix the > disklabel code to allow boot blocks to be installed on slices. > > Unfortunately, the only way I could fix my particular problem was > to get rid of my dangerously dedicated partition which meant blowing > away the hard drive and repartitioning and relabeling it. > > The very last example, just before the SEE ALSO section for the > 'disklabel' manual page shows how to do this. But be warned: it blows > away the disk. > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE&format=html > > I do not know if my problem is the same as yours, so this could be all > for nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message