On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote:
>:> # optional dd if you are paranoid
>:> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4
>:> fdisk -I da0
>:> disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto
>:>
>:> That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to
>:> do is initialize a label on a slice.
>:
>:Yes, this is definitely the desired behavior.
>:
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>:
>:John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
>
> John, can you explain how the MBR bootstraps a slice? Should I make
> disklabel zero-out the fdisk partition table area in the slice rather
> then installing the dummy fdisk partition table? That is, for the
> case where -B is used on a slice (da0s1) verses on the whole-disk (da0)?
Just ignore the slice table within a slice. It is only used when boot1
is splatted over top of the MBR for the dangerously dedicated mode. It is
unused and ignored otherwise.
> -Matt
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