Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:36:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, (Danny Braniss) <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, (Paul Saab) <paul@mu.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h Message-ID: <200010280136.e9S1a7H56416@earth.backplane.com> References: <XFMail.001027180901.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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:> # optional dd if you are paranoid :> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4 :> fdisk -I da0 :> disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto :> :> That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to :> do is initialize a label on a slice. : :Yes, this is definitely the desired behavior. : :-- : :John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ John, can you explain how the MBR bootstraps a slice? Should I make disklabel zero-out the fdisk partition table area in the slice rather then installing the dummy fdisk partition table? That is, for the case where -B is used on a slice (da0s1) verses on the whole-disk (da0)? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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