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From: jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: disklabel and new bootstrap code
Date: 13 Mar 1995 21:08:32 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Brian Somers,London W13,+44.956.361.769,+44.181.840.7880 (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Jon Jenkins (jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com) wrote:
....deleted
: You'll probably need to write an entry in /etc/disktab for your disk config.
: It's a bit laborious, but you should get enough info from the man pages.
Hi, thanks for replying. The problem
is that there is a bug indisklabel.c.
The sb_size parameter never gets
set when a write to the bootstrap
is attempted but fails silently
I have reported this in the bugs
group but have so far had no
replies or info.
: --
: Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
: Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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