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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:36:24 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel Talon)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h
Message-ID:  <200010300636.XAA00746@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001029150754.A569@lpthe.jussieu.fr> from Michel Talon at "Oct 29, 0 03:07:54 pm"

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As I recall, Michel Talon wrote:
> I have recently created a disklabel on a slice of an ata disk with
> disklabel.  Of course i had to create an entry in /etc/disktab to do
> that, but encountered no other problem.

Last time I had to do that, I used dd to copy the first couple of
blocks from a working disk onto the new one, and then used disklabel
to edit the new one to look like I wanted it.

Only took a minute or two to do the work, and an hour or so to
figure out that's what I had to do.

	-crl
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