Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:33:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <200007211234.IAA61899@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <39773ED9.B05E0EBE@rtci.com> from Thomas Stromberg at "Jul 20, 2000 02:03:05 pm"
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Thomas Stromberg once stated: => > As for geometry, I tried both with and without "dangerously => > dedicated." My understanding was that if I used the dos partition => > entry method that we should be able to pick up the geometry => > correctly, but should I try the old dos fdisk trick as well? Also, => > would the adaptec setting to translate >1G be affecting this? It's => > on currently, which it is on all my other motherboards of similar => > vintage. => => Your boot disk is now *required* (or will be very very soon) to have => a proper slice table in -CURRENT; dedicated disks are deprecated in => order to get a smarter boot0. Wait! Smarter then what? So it can boot NT and Win98 for some weenies, or, actually do something useful (not sure what, though)? Why am I to waste space (even so little) "to be compatible with other OSes", if there will never be any other OSes? =This would defititely help out at work, as I would no longer get the =question from all of our users during the install "Should I be =dedicated or not?" "Yes, you should" :) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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