Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:48:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611240848.JAA09794@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611232328.KAA07967@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Nov 24, 96 10:28:02 am"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > Disklabel now does extra work to > preserve the existing partition table if there is a nonzero entry in it. BUGS ... For the i386 architecture, the primary bootstrap sector contains an em- bedded fdisk table. Disklabel takes care to not clobber it when in- stalling a bootstrap only (-B), or when editing an existing label (-e), but it unconditionally writes the primary bootstrap program onto the disk for -w or -R, thus replacing the fdisk table by the dummy one in the bootstrap program. This is only of concern if the disk is fully dedicat- ed, so that the BSD disklabel starts at absolute block 0 on the disk. Hence, disklabel sd0 > /tmp/protofile disklabel -B -R sd0 /tmp/protofile should ``properly'' clobber the fdisk table. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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