From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 11:29:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F297037B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9RITGf85246; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:29:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:30:06 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Matt Dillon Subject: Re: RE: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALin Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote: > The real question is: Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated > mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition? Everything > I try using fdisk and disklabel fails. fdisk will create a normal > freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it. See my previous e-mail about my slicelabel utility^Whack. If you use sysinstall you can label the disk as well. :) > Beyond that, our 'dangerously dedicated' disk label should at least > contain reasonable values -- be correct enough to pass BIOS muster. > I don't know enough about the partition format to know where the > BIOS calculation is failing. Errr, the dangerously dedicated label can't contain reasonable values because it violates assumptions made by other pieces of the PC architecture. > -Matt -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message