From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 1:39:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3007137B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5126E6ACB8; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:09:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:09:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: Danny Howard , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: fdisk & disklabel dont work! Message-ID: <20010410180942.Y64481@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010410113808.K64481@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:31:50AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 10 April 2001 at 1:31:50 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> This is great, except the system will then refuse to boot. PXE boot >>> crashes and SCSI boot hangs, and the explanation I can find is that >>> the Adaptec controller is pissed off about the dangerously dedicated >>> mode and ends up diving by zero. >> >> That's maybe the explanation you can find, but I doubt it's correct. >> I have lots of dedicated installations running with Adaptec host >> adaptors, and it works fine. > > But there are other Adaptec controllers (eg, those built on the Intel > L440GX+ motherboard) that do _not_ work in a dedicated situation. I haven't seen any, and I haven't seen any proof that this statement is correct. > My advice is to play it safe and put a proper slice table on. fdisk > -I is quite handy for this, assuming there's nothing on the disk you > care about. :) That didn't work for him either. I don't know what the problem is, but the information we got wasn't enough to determine it, and he's now fixed it by using sysinstall. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message