From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 7: 7:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A715637B687 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e73E3En18364; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:03:14 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000803140833.A63622@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:03:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: j mckitrick Subject: RE: [Mailer-Daemon@probity.mcc.ac.uk: Mail delivery failed: retu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Aug-00 j mckitrick wrote: > in a previous message it was explained that 'dangerously dedicated' is > called > that because sometimes the BIOS will not recognize a boot block without a > valid slice table. Does this affect my being able to reformat the HD and > reinstall windows if i ever sell my laptop? Or am i stuck with freeBSD > forever on this drive? Not that I am aware of. I have been able to DOS-fdisk the drive to get partition entries back. (or was it fdisk /mbr? Anyway, it can be done!) /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message