> Ah, the joys of fdisk and disklabels. I've learned more in the last
> two days then I ever really wanted to find out :-)
>
> # clear out feldercarp at the base of the
> # disk and create a real slice for freebsd. Install
> # the MBR.
> #
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=16
> fdisk -BI da0
>
> # clear out feldercarp in the slice and then disklabel the
> * slice (using my patch) + the boot blocks
> #
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 count=16
> disklabel -w -r -B da0s1 auto
>
> Presumably a '-z' option to disklabel would do the equivalent of what
> the 'dd' in the above examples are doing.
I guess. There's always some hack to dd me and David O'Brien keep asking about
adding- you have to do the DIOCWLABEL.
This keeps on getting discussed over and over and over again. Bruce claims to
understand all of this- I sure don't. I *do* know that dangerously dedicated
disks that are built on i386 aren't readable on alpha (a mistake that linux
avoids).
I have some mail going back a year saying "this all has to be fixed for
4.0!". Guess what?
The story probably is "somebody needs to own the issue" and it hasn't reached
a level of pain for me to do that (other things are far more painful).
-matt
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