From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 18:36:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56FB37B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9S1a7H56416; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:36:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200010280136.e9S1a7H56416@earth.backplane.com> To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, (Danny Braniss) , (Paul Saab) , Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> # optional dd if you are paranoid :> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4 :> fdisk -I da0 :> disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto :> :> That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to :> do is initialize a label on a slice. : :Yes, this is definitely the desired behavior. : :-- : :John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ John, can you explain how the MBR bootstraps a slice? Should I make disklabel zero-out the fdisk partition table area in the slice rather then installing the dummy fdisk partition table? That is, for the case where -B is used on a slice (da0s1) verses on the whole-disk (da0)? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message