From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 28 7:19:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DD337B479; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA16048; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:18:59 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda16046; Sat Oct 28 07:18:58 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9SEIw616118; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdT16116; Sat Oct 28 07:18:48 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id e9SEImB08772; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010281418.e9SEImB08772@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdoX8762; Sat Oct 28 07:18:20 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Matt Dillon Cc: John Baldwin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:24:21 PDT." <200010271824.e9RIOLw06173@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:18:20 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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