Date: 17 Oct 1999 03:52:45 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some serious gripes about `fdisk' and also `booteasy'. Message-ID: <7uba5d$8o9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7377.940121847@monkeys.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@monkeys.com> wrote: > Will whoever is supporting/maintaining the `fdisk' program *PLEASE* fix it > so that it displays some sort of a warning when the user is just about to > partition a SCSI drive for which the on/off status of BIOS address trans- > lation (for disks larger than 1GB) _cannot_ be automatically and properly > determined by fdisk itself? fdisk? What's fdisk? Oh, you mean you don't run your drive(s) in "dangerously" dedicated mode? I wish I could bring myself to feel the appropriate amount of sympathy. > If `booteasy' is unable to boot from a given drive or from a given partition, > couldn't it at least say something like `Error 473 - Return to continue'? > I mean I _do_ understand that memory space in the boot routine is very > minimal, but at least there should be room for something small like that! There is a total of 446 Bytes available, of which currently six bytes are unused. The code is in /sys/boot/i386/boot0/, if you have installed the kernel source. I guess I'm just mean-spirited today. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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