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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Disktab entryor Disklabel
Date: 30 Apr 1997 10:31:24 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <slrn5mchhb.c5j.beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no>,
beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no (Niklas Saers) writes:
> Hi. I've made a partition for FreeBSD on my Micropolis 2GB SCSI-disk located
> at sd1. (sys ID 165) But when I do a disklabel -r -w sd1 autto it returns:
>
> pe049 /kernel: fixlabel: raw partition size > slice size
> pe049 /kernel: fixlabel: raw partition offset != slice offset
>
> Anybody got a clue about what I should do? Do I need a special
> disktab-entry, or just a plain adjustmeant of my / the HDDs head(s) ? :)
Try using /stand/sysinstall instead of doing it manually. I can't
tell you what's wrong with the disktab entry without knowing what
dmesg says about the drive and what your current entry looks like.
/stand/sysinstall is so much easier.
> -=Niklas J. Saers=-
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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