From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 23 15: 4:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [194.77.233.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED2F37B556; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA98242; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:04:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" Message-Id: <200007232204.AAA98242@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200007232102.OAA17013@mass.osd.bsdi.com> from Mike Smith at "Jul 23, 2000 02:02:44 pm" To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:04:25 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hausen@punkt.de (Patrick M. Hausen), mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin), jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com (John Baldwin), stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Mike Smith wrote: > > I explicitly installed _all_ production machines "dangerously dedicated" > > _to_get_around_ geometry problems. So I could swap SCSI controllers > > of different brands with different translations. > > That was a silly idea. Well, when I once moved a partitioned disk from one machine to another with a different controller, the controller BIOS said someting like "gemoetry is - expecting ". This never happened with dedicated disks. > I don't know where *anyone* has gotten this stupid idea from so listen up > real good: > > THIS CHANGE TO BOOT0 WILL NOT REQUIRE ANY SYSTEM TO EVER BE REINSTALLED. > > The change that's being made is to desupport the creation of incorrectly > laid out 'dedicated' disks. Your existing layouts will continue to work > just fine. You could never use MBR-based OS selector with any other > dedicated disk, so you are not losing any more functionality. > > PLEASE STOP SPREADING FUD AND UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOURS. THANKYOU. Point taken, I'm going to shut up on this one. Patrick -- --- WEB ISS GmbH - Scheffelstr. 17a - 76135 Karlsruhe - 0721/9109-0 --- ------ Patrick M. Hausen - Technical Director - hausen@punkt.de ------- "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message