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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does a second SCSI disk have to be sliced? Date: 23 Sep 1995 11:20:31 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Distribution: Distribution: Message-ID: <440jgv$hss@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DF4G3r.J6q@wire.xenitec.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Vance Shipley <vances@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca> wrote: >From what I can see what I'd like to do is skip the fdisk step and just >disklabel the whole drive. The manual pages suggest this is still >supported, is it? Even for the first drive. :-) >I have tried any number of combinations of fdisk'ing and disklabeling >(including having a DOS partition at the start of the drive) but I keep >ending up with the same error eventually which is a write error complaining >about bad magic on the partition table. You forgot to add the -B flag in the disklabel command. It's writing the bootstrap, too, that finally contains the trailing 0x55aa signature (the "magic"). Btw., this "bad magic" is a warning only for non-bootable drives. Something like "disklabel -B -r -w sd1 mydiskname" should do the trick. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)