From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 28 15:28:31 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 CD5F137B479; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9SMSFu67012; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:28:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200010282228.e9SMSFu67012@earth.backplane.com> To: Matthew Jacob , John Baldwin , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG 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 :> > After fdisk creating partitions try, :> > :> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16 : :Hmm. Isn't the only thing that's suppose to really work is : :dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=16 : :(which doesn't always work on Alpha yet) : :I'm missing some context, so forgive me if this is a stupid question? Ah, the joys of fdisk and disklabels. I've learned more in the last two days then I ever really wanted to find out :-) # clear out feldercarp at the base of the # disk and create a real slice for freebsd. Install # the MBR. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=16 fdisk -BI da0 # clear out feldercarp in the slice and then disklabel the * slice (using my patch) + the boot blocks # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16 disklabel -w -r -B da0s1 auto Presumably a '-z' option to disklabel would do the equivalent of what the 'dd' in the above examples are doing. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message