Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:16:22 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <20000724081622.B87673@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007231845580.9238-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>; from adrian@ubergeeks.com on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 06:57:12PM -0400 References: <200007232030.NAA23028@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007231845580.9238-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>
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On Sun, 23-Jul-2000 at 18:57:12 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > > > > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > > > > > John Baldwin once stated: > > > > > > > > > Folks, gemoetries are for brain damaged PC operating systems. > > > All the box needs to boot is a proper MBR. BIOSes that > > > don't boot from a dedicated disk are _broken_. > > > > No, they are actually smart in that they attempt to use a geometry that > > matches the MBR so that you can move disks around. As a result, when we > > try to fake it, it confuses them. > > Hmmm. Perhaps my memory is failing me, but I've been using > "dangerously dedicated" disks exclusively for the last few years, because > it was supposed to insulate me from the silliness of BIOS geometry > translation. By insulate, I mean that a disk formatted on one system was > always usable on another even if it decided to have a different geometry > translation. > > I don't shuttle disks around between systems as much as I used to, > but I do recall dedicated mode helping. The only systems that had problem > booting were old and are long gone. I haven't seen or bought anything in > the last three years that won't boot a "dangerously dedicated" disk. Buy a (brandnew) Siemens machine and you will see one :-(. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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