From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:26:01 +0100 From: "Sander van Dijk" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Booting problem after fresh install from 20080203 iso. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5137e7d6-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Feb 12, 2008 1:50 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > 1. I zeroed the target harddisk before installation like this: "dd -if > > /dev/zero -of /dev/sdC1/data". > > 2. I also accidentally did this first when I really meant to zero the > > disk: "dd -if /dev/zero -f /dev/sdC1/raw". > > you did the right thing. the raw file is for issuing raw commands to > the drive. (not raw like you're thinking. they're raw scsi commands > which might be translated (loosely) into ata.) see scuzz(8). I believe my writing turns out a bit unclear. What I meant to say was that I actually did a "dd -if /dev/zero -f /dev/sdC1/raw" before I figured out that it should have been "dd -if /dev/zero -of /dev/sdC1/data" instead. Hence I was wondering if writing those zeroes to the raw file could be the source of my problem (in case those zeroes translate to a command I really shouldn't have given), because this is one of the things I did right before the problem appeared. Anyway, thanks for the reference, I'll take a look at scuzz(8). Greetings, Sander.