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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Galactus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Problem with disklabel'ing a 2nd drive
Date: 30 Jun 1993 22:59:58 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - ITD Consulting and Support
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Scott Burris (scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu) wrote:
: >I've been trying to get a second drive going on our machine here and
: >disklabel is giving me the worst time.
: Same here. I've tried disklabelling a second drive in systems with
: each of the following:
: 2 IDE drives
: 1 IDE, 1 SCSI
: 2 SCSI
: and have never gotten it to work.
Ok, I've had similar problems. I don't know if this is a FAQ or not. But it
damn well should be. Many of the disklabel problems are caused buy bad files
in /usr/mdec. In particular, /usr/mdec/bootwd, and /usr/mdec/bootsd. I got a
response that had to do with these files are corrupted, and have data in them
where there is supposed to be zero bytes. ( i dunno exactly. If you want the
response i got, just mail me...I'll forward it.) Anyway...You can get good
copies of these files from one of the distribution floppies (i think
install1). OR...if you like, you can ftp them from recycle.snre.umich.edu
(anon of course).
Hope that this helps....alex...
--
Alex Tang -- ALTITUDE@UMICH.EDU...USERW00Y@UMICHUM.BITNET
U of M, SNRE: Student and Computer Consultant II
ITD/CSS Consultant and...General Fun Loving Guy :)