Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:04:25 +0200 (CEST) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: hausen@punkt.de (Patrick M. Hausen), mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin), jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com (John Baldwin), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <200007232204.AAA98242@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <200007232102.OAA17013@mass.osd.bsdi.com> from Mike Smith at "Jul 23, 2000 02:02:44 pm"
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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 <something> - expecting <something else>". 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
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