From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 23 11:42:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A8737B479 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA44015; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eANJgod03600; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:42:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:42:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Fred Clift Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001123114249.B3504@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200011231608.IAA02277@spammie.svbug.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fclift@verio.net on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:24:28AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Fred Clift wrote: > > > o An increasing number of BIOS will divide by 0 when they > > > are attempting to implement LBA addressing. These > > > systems simply _can not boot_, given FreeBSD's fake DOS > > > partition table in its disklabel > > again, 30 seconds in fdisk fixes this ..snip.. > again, 30 seconds in fdisk fixes this Easy for the arm-chair quarterbacks to say. Aka, There seems to be a problem with your MUA, those easy patches to the FreeBSD documentation you created to explain how to do this (which were of course well tested) seems to have gotten deleted from this email. Perhaps you could send them again?? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message