Subject: Re: corrupted disklabel and bootstrap failure
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/07/2005 00:34:25
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>>>>> "j" ==   <j@replic.net> writes:

     j> Any ideas on what may be causing this, 

not really

     j> or anything else I could try?

Try this to wipe the disk.  the 'disklabel -W' is my suggestion.  you
may need the sleep command to keep the W-ness set---not sure, but it
won't hurt.

# sleep 90 < /dev/rsd0c &
# disklabel -W sd0
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c bs=512 count=16

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