From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat Oct 28  7:42:18 2000
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Subject: Re: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux hardware
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:41:25 +0100
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Cool idea. I will add a -z option to the disklabel code and submit it to the
author if thats OK with everyone else?

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On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> 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
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