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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:22:31 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        imp@village.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" 
Message-ID:  <3520.933924151@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:18:01 %2B1000." <199908060718.RAA09944@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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In message <199908060718.RAA09944@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>>: It seems that our new boot blocks doesn't like the taste of disks
>>>: prepared according to the meagre information we have in the handbook.
>>>
>>>How does this script differ from 'disklabel -w wd0 auto'?  It does do
>>>the fdisk stuff (your script, not the disklabel command).
>>
>>It differs in that you can boot from the disk afterwards with my script,
>>you cant with disklabel -w wd0 auto.
>


>That may be because you forgot to supply the -r or -B args to disklabel,
>[...]

No it is because the fool BIOS belives the 50000 in the MBR.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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