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Date:      Sun, 07 Feb 1999 10:44:59 -0500
From:      John Robert LoVerso <john@loverso.southborough.ma.us>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' 
Message-ID:  <199902071544.KAA18540@loverso.southborough.ma.us>
In-Reply-To: Message from Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>  <19990207145452.A9929@internal> .

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> >Why not wipe it out, then ?  Is there any advantage ?

It can always be used for non-boot disks regardless of BIOS.


One problem that bit me in the past (before I understood dangerously dedicated
disks), is that sysinstall will let you create a one, and then offer to add
a boot manager to it.

John

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