Subject: Re: questions: pmsprobe, fdisk/disklabel
To: Peter L. Peres <plp@actcom.co.il>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/23/2005 15:28:18
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:13:51PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have two questions which seem to have no easy answers:
> 
> - what causes this on boot: pmsprobe: reset error 5
> 
> before I look in the source and try to find out myself, I would like to 
> know if anyone else has seen this error.
> 
> - how do I reconciliate the fdisk partition table and the disklabel ? I 
> have a disk I am using for testing, it has a 2.4G netbsd slice in 
> primary entry 1 and a linux swap and ext2 partition in 2nd and 3rd 
> respectively. fdisk sees them but disklabel does not, it says the 2nd 
> partition is swap and the 3rd is 'unknown'. I used disklabel -e to edit 
> it but it refuses the ext2fs type. How do I reconcile them ? I am able 
> to mount the disk under linux and see the data on partition 3. Other 
> ext2fs disks (not partitions) can be mounted with no disklabel problems 
> (disklabel complains but mount works).

I think the proper type is "Linux ext2fs". You can also try to use mbrlabel
to generate the disklabel.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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