On 11/14/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > knitti wrote: > > Instead of e.g. /dev/sd0a try /dev/rsd0a. I didn't try with svnd, but > > when copying partitions with dd I use this. > > > > I tried that, but like I said fdisk complained when the svnd device is > associated with the raw direct access disk device. For example > > # vnconfig -k svnd0 /dev/rwd1c > > # fdisk -c 19457 -h 255 -s 63 -i svnd0 # disk CHS > fdisk: error initializing MBR: bad address > > # fdisk -c 19456 -h 254 -s 63 -i svnd0 # OpenBSD partition CHS > fdisk: error initializing MBR: bad address > > # fdisk -i svnd0 > Warning CHS values out of bounds only saving LBA values > fdisk: error initializing MBR: bad address >
well, the 'c' slice is a bit 'special', perhaps try an 'a' slice filling the whole disk but the first track? After all, I think its weird not to have an MBR etc. on the real disk. (Which doesn't mean that I couldn't imagine that). --knitti
