Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon 
writes:
> :Do you have dangerously dedicated mode on by chance?  Some
> :SCSI BIOS's _will_ crash with this if you use dangerously
> :dedicated mode.
> 
>     Yup.
> 
>     The real question is:  Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated
>     mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition?  Everything
>     I try using fdisk and disklabel fails.  fdisk will create a normal 
>     freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it.

After fdisk creating partitions try,

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16

Then disklabel -r -w and disklabel -B

Tru64-UNIX has a disklabel -z option which zeros out the disk label.  
Compaq and Digital before that recommended disklabel -z prior to laying 
down a new label.  Should we consider a -z option for our disklabel?


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message