Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:35:02 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive? Message-ID: <20051121203502.GC9446@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <4464qmc0cm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20051120232420.GA98270@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4464qmc0cm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:26:33PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes: : : > I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting because the : > HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the BIOS is : > set to boot it first. : : That wouldn't be relevant. The BIOS is lying to you, or isn't capable : of booting this particular CD. I found that NetBSD doesn't boot from CD, FreeBSD 5.4 does, older DragonFly does not, but newer DFly does. I have no idea why, but my laptop doesn't like some CDROMs for booting. jm --
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