From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 21 9:58:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755DC15091 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA39200; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:58:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:58:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: attila Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, attila wrote: > am one of those who suffers from lack of politically correct > attitude -- I dont do M$lop (refuse to), so why should I > worry about slices? never need slices before M$lop.... however, > that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large > partitions take performance hits. From the support department: Some PC BIOSes won't boot a disk without a MS partition table. Try booting a dangerously dedicated disk on a Phoenix machine and you'll see what I mean. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message