John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Ian Freislich wrote this message on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 18:48 +0200:
> > I've just tried this dd'ing /dev/zero over the front of the disk
> > first to no avail (the probed geometry is the geometry that fdisk
> > used anyway). I also tried your much loved ficticious geome
Ian Freislich wrote this message on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 18:48 +0200:
> I've just tried this dd'ing /dev/zero over the front of the disk
> first to no avail (the probed geometry is the geometry that fdisk
> used anyway). I also tried your much loved ficticious geometry of
> 255H 64S and that didn'
Mark Murray wrote:
> Hi Ian!
>
> Ian Freislich writes:
> > I've used fdisk to create one slice (da0s1). I then used bsdlabel
> > to make make the partitions a, b, e and f. Then to put the boot
> > block on 'disklabel -B /dev/da0s1' - if I 'disklabel -B /dev/da0'
> > it trashes the label. Then I
Hi Ian!
Ian Freislich writes:
> I've used fdisk to create one slice (da0s1). I then used bsdlabel
> to make make the partitions a, b, e and f. Then to put the boot
> block on 'disklabel -B /dev/da0s1' - if I 'disklabel -B /dev/da0'
> it trashes the label. Then I copy all my filesystems off the
Peter McGarvey wrote:
> * Ian Freislich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-14 13:58:39 BST]:
> > Hi
> >
> > This might sound like a really simple question, but what used to
> > work no longer does. How do you partition, label and make a disk
> > bootable?
>
> And this may sound like a really stupid an
* Ian Freislich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-14 13:58:39 BST]:
> Hi
>
> This might sound like a really simple question, but what used to
> work no longer does. How do you partition, label and make a disk
> bootable?
And this may sound like a really stupid answer, but have you considered
using /s
Hi
This might sound like a really simple question, but what used to
work no longer does. How do you partition, label and make a disk
bootable?
I've used fdisk to create one slice (da0s1). I then used bsdlabel
to make make the partitions a, b, e and f. Then to put the boot
block on 'disklabel -
