From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 27 12:36:38 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA06878 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:36:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA06873 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:36:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA02580; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:36:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:36:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jason Hudgins cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel In-Reply-To: <3066D7A31@smtp.dancooks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Jason Hudgins wrote: > I'm trying to recreate the disklabel on my western digital IDE hd. > I am doing this from a custom made fixit floppy...I try this.. > > disklabel -w -B -b /usr/mdec/wdboot -s /usr/mdec/bootwd /dev/wd0 auto > > and it complains that with the auto option I must supply a "canonical > disk name" /dev/wd0 --> wd0 > I am assuming that this is referring to a drive type in /etc/disktab. > There is nothing in /etc/disktab that vaguely resembles anytype of > WD ide drive...furthermore if I could try and create an entry..but > I have no idea how to answer most of the questions such as > how many tracks per cylinder ..etc. Is this the only way to do > this? Or is there an easier way? No, it wants the un-/dev/'d device name. I assume this is some sort of recovery operation. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major