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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> > > first place, or whaddaya think why i've been inventing the
>> > > ``dangerously dedicated'' mode? :)
>> 
>> For ideological reasons.

>Not only. :) I've got too many complaints from industry users and
>other people running dedicated FreeBSD systems.  Describing them that
>they first had to install something called DOS didn't make a good
>impression... and was not necessary.

It has never been necessary.  Just tell the BIOS which geometry to use
and remember what you told it, or boot with -v to get the geometry, or
use fdisk to set up one slice covering the whole disk, or use disklabel
to set up an empty disk.

Bruce