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From: bspengle@nyx.cs.du.edu (Brett Spengler)
Subject: Re: REPOST: NetBSD 0.8: can't disklabel 2nd IDE
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Keywords: disklabel IDE NetBSD
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 14:25:57 GMT
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Yeah, I ran into this as well even got newfs to go through.  However fsck
coughed on bootup and I ended up with a mess.

A quick and very dirty work around is to take the 2nd IDE and make it the
1st.  Take the 1st out of your machine and shelve it temporarily.  GO
through the standard install on the drive that wouldn't disklablel --
it will disklabel for some reason this way.  Move it back to the 2nd
drive and put your first back in.  You now have two dislabeled drives that
will work. A brute force method, but effective.