John Baldwin wrote: > > > SUMMARY: > > The boot disk (ad0 in attachment) is not the problem. > > There are two other IBM SCSI disks attached to two Adaptec cards. > > Its these other two SCSI disks-da0,da1 which are empty and > > whose disklabels I played with. These cause a BTX error if > > they are plugged in during a boot. > > Were these disks ever formatted with dangerously dedicated mode. If so, you > would need to re-fdisk them to get the bogus fdisk table out of the way. > dd'ing zeros over the table is one way of doing this, although you will still > need to fdisk afterwards.
They had a vinum partition but cant recall if they were dedicated. I had dd'ed zeroes all over but had forgotten fdisk! Yes, it works now :-) thanks again -Sandeep > > -- > > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
