David Vasek [va...@fido.cz] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the new installboot(8) wipes the disk label on a 4k-byte/sector drive - a
> valid disk label becomes binary zeros after
> /usr/sbin/installboot -r /mnt sd4
>
> To be more precise, the "boot sector" (the first 512 bytes) gets installed,
> but the disk label (the next 512 bytes) is overwritten with zeros.
>
> OpenBSD 5.5-current (RAMDISK_CD) #48: Sun Apr 20 03:50:37 MDT 2014
> dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD
>
Anyone who wants to reproduce these issues doesn't even need 4k hardware,
a disktab will suffice:
4k:\
:se#4096:
vnconfig -t 4k vnd0 image.file
and flashrd can quickly produce (non-)bootable 4k images
(www.nmedia.net/flashrd)
by: flashrd -l 500000 -b 4096
