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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
