Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:58:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, danny@cs.huji.ac.il (Danny Braniss), paul@mu.org (Paul Saab) Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <200010272358.QAA02448@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200010271832.e9RIWsk06307@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at Oct 27, 2000 11:32:54 AM
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> Thanks for the program. > > I think, however, that the proper solution is to make disklabel work > with slices. We shouldn't need three programs to label a disk... > if fdisk and disklabel can't do the job then our distribution is broken. > > I am going to spend some time researching the problem to see if I can > come up with a 'disklabel' solution for labeling slices. It would > also be nice if someone could figure out why our 'dangerously dedicated' > partition fails with some BIOSes ... it should be possible to fix it if > someone could track down what exactly is causing the divide-by-0 ! I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction... In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition on all but one box of mine, and always have been. I installed 4.1 on my laptop that way. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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