From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 1:45: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4858F37B65E for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAK9poF11675; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011200951.eAK9poF11675@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: FreeBSD Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks, et al. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:41:37 CST." <200011200041.SAA30068@KIWI-Computer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:51:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >> The problem is the bogus MBR that the DD writes confuses some > > >> BIOSes and causes your disks to be non-bootable. > > So why don't we fix the bogus MBR so that we can still do DD? I'll offer > to help. "Fixing" the bogus MBR means using a valid partition layout. This is what is going to be done. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message