From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 29 22:36:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0A437B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:36:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00746; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:36:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200010300636.XAA00746@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h In-Reply-To: <20001029150754.A569@lpthe.jussieu.fr> from Michel Talon at "Oct 29, 0 03:07:54 pm" To: michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel Talon) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:36:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Michel Talon wrote: > 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. Last time I had to do that, I used dd to copy the first couple of blocks from a working disk onto the new one, and then used disklabel to edit the new one to look like I wanted it. Only took a minute or two to do the work, and an hour or so to figure out that's what I had to do. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message