Chris:
I see the following problem with what you typed:
the ":"

I do this:
disklabel -B ra0
or 
dislabel -B rd54b ra0
where my ra* is the target disk, and in the second is the
type of disklabel (so I get boot blocks and my own label, rd54 bob style 
or rd54b!)
Hope this helps!
jake


Chris Craft wrote:
> 
> Ok, rd0 works, but trying to write the bootblocks I get:
> "disklabel: Bootstrap doesn't leave room for disk label"
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Bertram Barth wrote:
> 
> > > > Disklabel croaks with: "disklabel: /dev/rra0c: Device not configured"
> > > >
> > >
> > >   Is this under 1.2C or 1.2G?  1.2C had real problems labeling disks that
> > > don't already have a label.
> >
> > I haven't tried recently, but one of "rd0", "/dev/rrd0c", "/dev/rrd0d",
> > or "/dev/rrd0a" should work.
> >
> > Ciao,
> >       bertram
> >

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