From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 27 17:12:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3DB037B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9S0BPf97048; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010272358.QAA02448@usr01.primenet.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:12:14 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Cc: (Paul Saab) , (Danny Braniss) , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, (Matt Dillon) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Oct-00 Terry Lambert wrote: >> Thanks for the program. >> >> I think, however, that the proper solution is to make disklabel work >> with slices. We shouldn't need three programs to label a disk... >> if fdisk and disklabel can't do the job then our distribution is broken. >> >> I am going to spend some time researching the problem to see if I can >> come up with a 'disklabel' solution for labeling slices. It would >> also be nice if someone could figure out why our 'dangerously dedicated' >> partition fails with some BIOSes ... it should be possible to fix it if >> someone could track down what exactly is causing the divide-by-0 ! > > I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I > seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction... Nope. > In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition > on all but one box of mine, and always have been. I installed > 4.1 on my laptop that way. Sysinstall can create a disklabel inside of a MBR slice fine. The problem is that the disklabel(8) _program_ itself doesn't know how to create a virgin disklabel for a MBR slice. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message