Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:07:54 +0100 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <20001029150754.A569@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001028145901.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200010281418.e9SEImB08772@cwsys.cwsent.com> <XFMail.001028145901.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 02:59:01PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > >> 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 > > Nope, I tried that. Without Dillon's patch, disklabel cannot create > a virgin disklabel on a slice. Period. > I have recently created a disklabel on a slice of an ata disk with disklabel. Of course i had to create an entry in /etc/disktab to do that, but encountered no other problem. I am sure i didn't do it with sysinstall because my sysinstall was broken at the time, so i did experiment with fdisk and disklabel. I must confess that i have also tried to disklabel a zip on da1s4 and was rewarded by da1s4: device not configured Then i ran fdisk to exchange s1 and s4 and disklabel succeeded. This was two days ago, on a 4.1 system. Of course if you are speaking of disklabel .... auto, you are right, i presume. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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