Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:29:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift <fred@veriohosting.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251525290.63747-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com> In-Reply-To: <200007232030.NAA23028@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > the geometry of a disk. At the very least, dangerously dedicated mode > should specify a valid length for the slice the way that truly dedicated > mode does so that if you ever need to stick a dedicated disk in another > computer for some reason, it doesn't see that all but the first 25,000k as > being free and happily reformat it for you or other nonsense. I whole-heartedly agree, and do this for all my dangerously dedicated installs. one disklabel command, and 30 seconds in fdisk are all that is needed to do this, or rather, less than a second of my time since I wrote a program to automate this piping input into fdisk, since the scripting stuff in fdisk is broken in some dumb ways... To top it off, this 'fixes' the problem that some bioses have with dedicated disks. Ie the bioses main source of confusion is the broken partition table entry that is put there when by disklabel... Fred -- Fred Clift - fred@veriohosting.com -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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