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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!miff From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: labelling wd0 so as to mount it as PCFS Date: 12 Sep 94 14:03:29 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <miff.779378609@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Greetings peoples... I've been watching the questions/answers going past about setting up wd0 (DOS only) so as to be read from an sd0-booting system. Having stuck my head into various manpages, I thought I'd give it a go. Now, I boot from sd0 using boot-easy 1.31 and a slightly modified bootblock on sd0. wd0 is just your average DOS format disk, with a tiny FreeBSD partition at the end (3024 blocks). wd0 is an ESDI drive (NEC D5655/Adaptec ACB232) running in 63-sector translation mode. I've managed to make a FreeBSD partition stick, but I can't get a disklabel to hold. I have a disk prototype for the disk with two partitions : a and c. a matches the DOS layout, and c is the whole disk. Writing this prototype, I get the 'label mismatch or checksum is wrong' error. (something has returned EINVAL) After this, every attempt to write/read/whatever a disklabel on this disk gives the message : can't read master boot record: Undefined errror: 0 Is this a consequence of having set partition 'c' to the entire disk, rather than 'd'? Have I missed something obvious in all this? Thanks for any suggestions. -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #