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

[Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baldwin writes:
> 
> On 28-Oct-00 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Nope, I tried that.  Without Dillon's patch, disklabel cannot create
> a virgin disklabel on a slice.  Period.

I tried it too.  Looks like something has changed since I last labelled 
a disk over a year ago.  This procedure used to work at one time.  
Prior to that the dd wasn't required.

Sysinstall does work.  Is there some way we could share code between 
sysinstall and disklabel?  While sysinstall might be modified to keep 
up with changes in the kernel, disklabel would benefit too?


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





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