On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, 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

This is a bug in the adaptec BIOS. Don't do this for boot disks. Use
fdisk/real slices instead.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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