Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:18:20 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <200010281418.e9SEImB08772@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:24:21 PDT." <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > :Do you have dangerously dedicated mode on by chance? Some > :SCSI BIOS's _will_ crash with this if you use dangerously > :dedicated mode. > > Yup. > > 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. After fdisk creating partitions try, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16 Then disklabel -r -w and disklabel -B Tru64-UNIX has a disklabel -z option which zeros out the disk label. Compaq and Digital before that recommended disklabel -z prior to laying down a new label. Should we consider a -z option for our disklabel? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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