Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Vallo Kallaste wrote: Hi Just did the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=512 #remove old stuff fdisk -I da1#cover the entire disk with one da1s1 slice fdisk da1 #check what's put there disklabel -rw da1s1 auto#install virgin

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:23:14AM -0800, Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are the warnings? what version of disklabel.c? Here's script output: Script started on Mon Nov 18 21:46:07 2002 bash-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=512 512+0 records in 512+0 records out

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:23:14AM -0800, Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are the warnings? what version of disklabel.c? Here's script output: Script started on Mon Nov 18 21:46:07 2002 [...] sysid 165

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:00:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] In pre-geom days we had a realhack (TM) that would fiddle the label if you read it direct from the disk. In other words it fixed it to always look (u relative I think) even if you read it from

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:00:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] In pre-geom days we had a realhack (TM) that would fiddle the label if you read it direct from the disk. In other words it fixed it to always look

Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r

2002-11-18 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : partition c: partition extends past end of unit : Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0! : Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilities : partition e: partition extends past