Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:19:43 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <200011200019.RAA16004@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:51:00 %2B1030." <20001120095100.G58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001120095100.G58333@echunga.lemis.com> <200011192231.eAJMVIF09854@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <008901c05278$b71a6f50$0200000a@sam>
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In message <20001120095100.G58333@echunga.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: As far as I know, there has been no decision to remove dedicated mode. : I for one would strongly oppose it. Arguments about bootstraps and : BIOS are bogus: on a dedicated machine, you only need a bootstrap on : the boot disk, so any additional disks can always be dedicated. But : to answer your question: if you have to change from dedicated to a : Microsoft compatible layout, yes, you'll have to rebuild all your file : systems. No it isn't bogus. You can't boot off a DD disk on some machines because the MBR is too bogus for the BIOS to cope with. The problem with DD is that we put a bogus MBR onto the disk. All that is necessary to fix it would be to put a non-bgous MBR onto the disk. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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