Subject: Re: Shark "disklabel hell"
To: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@baymoo.org>
From: Konrad Schroder <perseant@hhhh.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/05/2001 09:45:53
> Thanks for the quick reply. But this doesn't work either. Could there be
> something wrong with /sbin/disklabel or the Shark kernel in 1.5?
From a quick perusal of disksubr.c it looks like the kernel won't pay
attention to the disklabel if there is an MBR on the disk, which disklabel
doesn't write over for you. (The boot blocks also have this same
problem.) You might try "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=8192 count=1"
to wipe out the MBR, and then repeat Luke's suggestion.
Konrad Schroder
perseant@hhhh.org