Alpha and labels stuff

[ticso at cicely12.cicely.de (Bernd Walter)]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:27:21AM +0000, Pierrick Brossin wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> >From within FreeBSD:
> >dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 of=/dev/adn
> >replace adn with ad0 or whatever your disk is named.
> 
> Did it from my FBSD 5.1-C x86 machine.
> It writed the 10240 bytes successfully but it's still not working on the
> alpha :)

Maybe you need to write more then count=1.
I'm unshure about the exact bit pattern and position that causes this
kind of problem.

> It says "You can only do this in a disk slice (at top of screen)"

As long as dd claimed to succed I think the blocks were written.

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