From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 29 7:11:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 416A637B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id e9TFBEq58117 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:11:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id QAA03421 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:11:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00594 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:07:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michel) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:07:54 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <20001029150754.A569@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <200010281418.e9SEImB08772@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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