Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 01:27:03 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk headache Message-ID: <Mutt.19970127012703.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701262114.OAA02297@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 26, 1997 14:14:45 -0700 References: <Mutt.19970126104601.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701262114.OAA02297@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Right now, there are three reasons to still call it ``dangerously > > dedicated'': > > > > . Since the MBR is identical to the BSD bootstrap, there's no room for > > things like `nextboot' after the MBR, and you can't replace the MBR > > by fancy things like a boot selector. > This is evil. You consider it evil -- some (many?) others don't. See the first sentence above: it's called ``dangerously'' dedicated mode. It's just for those who want and love this way. Those who prefer fighting against braindead 1024-cylinder or foobar megabyte limits are free to do so, and we even do them the favour to make these struggles (i.e., the DOS-compatible way) the default variant. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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