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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!bspengle From: bspengle@nyx.cs.du.edu (Brett Spengler) Subject: Re: REPOST: NetBSD 0.8: can't disklabel 2nd IDE Message-ID: <1993Jul29.142557.899@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Keywords: disklabel IDE NetBSD Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci. References: <1993Jul28.104210.26144@newstand.syr.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 93 14:25:57 GMT Lines: 11 Yeah, I ran into this as well even got newfs to go through. However fsck coughed on bootup and I ended up with a mess. A quick and very dirty work around is to take the 2nd IDE and make it the 1st. Take the 1st out of your machine and shelve it temporarily. GO through the standard install on the drive that wouldn't disklablel -- it will disklabel for some reason this way. Move it back to the 2nd drive and put your first back in. You now have two dislabeled drives that will work. A brute force method, but effective.