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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!brunix!cs.brown.edu!mhw From: mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) Subject: Re: Using Disklabel In-Reply-To: jbw@bbin.uucp's message of 20 Jun 93 15:01:36 GMT Message-ID: <MHW.93Jun21022501@vegas.cs.brown.edu> Sender: news@cs.brown.edu Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University References: <C8xDqr.33K@bbin.uucp> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 07:25:01 GMT Lines: 22 > I am trying to install a second SCSI device on my machine. It is reconized > as sd1 on bootup. I can 'disklabel -w' it and mount and use the paritions > I set up. I can not 'disklabel -w -r' it, I just get a message that > Bootstrap does not leave room for disk label. I had the same problem and there is a simple solution. I'm not sure why this works, but it does. Instead of specifying the entire device path name (ie /dev/rsd0c), only specify the two letters of the device type and the unit number (ie "sd0"). Disklabel figures out the rest, and it works. For instance, the following line works for me: disklabel -w -r sd0 <drivetype> assuming of course that the boot block files are in /usr/mdec/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet/CSnet: mhw@cs.brown.edu | Mark Weaver BITNET: mhw@browncs | Box 2160, Brown University UUCP: uunet!brunix!mhw | Providence, RI 02912-2160