Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 14:23:28 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: writing bootcode; need a method Message-ID: <199501231923.OAA03201@goof.com> In-Reply-To: <9501231851.AA08997@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 23, 95 11:51:41 am
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Terry Lambert wrote: > Examining a disk: [ good description of how partitions, slices, mbrs work omitted ] > For right now, you are required to have a disklabel before proceeding. This unfortunately isn't the problem. The problem lies in the fact that the sysinstall does not require BSD partitions to begin and end on cylinder boundaries, whereas the disklabel program does. Thus, the disklabel program, when told to write boot code, finds what it considers to be errors with the disklabel, because sysinstall has made partitions that don't begin/end on cylinder boundaries, and does not write out the new boot code, thus hd(1,a)/kernel can NOT be made the default, again, simply because disklabel never writes the boot code. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -- System/Network Administration, User Support, Software Devel. Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research Work Related: mmead@ctr.vt.edu | All Other: mmead@goof.com WWW: http://www.goof.com:/~mmead
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