Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:09:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fdisk & disklabel dont work! Message-ID: <20010410180942.Y64481@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104100130240.72640-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:31:50AM -0700 References: <20010410113808.K64481@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104100130240.72640-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Tuesday, 10 April 2001 at 1:31:50 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> This is great, except the system will then refuse to boot. PXE boot >>> crashes and SCSI boot hangs, and the explanation I can find is that >>> the Adaptec controller is pissed off about the dangerously dedicated >>> mode and ends up diving by zero. >> >> That's maybe the explanation you can find, but I doubt it's correct. >> I have lots of dedicated installations running with Adaptec host >> adaptors, and it works fine. > > But there are other Adaptec controllers (eg, those built on the Intel > L440GX+ motherboard) that do _not_ work in a dedicated situation. I haven't seen any, and I haven't seen any proof that this statement is correct. > My advice is to play it safe and put a proper slice table on. fdisk > -I is quite handy for this, assuming there's nothing on the disk you > care about. :) That didn't work for him either. I don't know what the problem is, but the information we got wasn't enough to determine it, and he's now fixed it by using sysinstall. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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