Subject: Re: Problem building boot floppy
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/28/1997 21:27:47
> That's what I would expect, but supposedly, it _has_ been labelled.
> src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk/Makefile first creates the
> ramdisk-12G.fs file, vnconfigs it, disklabels it with the floppy3 label,
> then tries to newfs it. And like I said, disklabel -r /dev/rvnd0d shows
> a label, with partitions a-c.

It ain't labelled until after you run vnconfig - before that, the
kernel has no backing store for the device, and therefore no label.

			       _MelloN_