On 29-Jan-01 Danny Braniss wrote:
> im now being bitten by this one, but with a twist:
> on a compaq deskpro workstation it's ok
> on a dell-precision 420, it bombs.
> both bioses are configured to boot via the network/pxe.
>
> im using the same disks for both boxes.
>
> i labeled the disks with:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0 bs=1k count=1
> disklabel -Brw da0 auto
>
> i then went ahead an played with vinum, all went fine on the Compaq,
> i then wanted to do some comparisons, so i hooked up the disks to the Dell
> and now BTX bombs.
>
> is there a way, that when booting from the net, btx ignores the mbr/fdisk
> info?
BTX doesn't read your MBR, it sounds like the BIOS in the machine is crapping
itself out on the disks in question. If you are using dangerously dedicated
mode on these disks, don't. :)
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