From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 24 12: 8:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D79E37B51B for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6OJ7xn09341; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:07:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mike Hoskins Cc: Mikhail Teterin , Thomas Stromberg , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Mike Hoskins wrote: > > So you'll be compatible with your BIOS as well. Many BIOSen get really, > > really torqued if your partition table isn't normal. > > > > It's a negligible amount of space. Just say 'Yes'. :) > > This means, what? All dangerously dedicated systems will have to be > reinstalled or somesuch? If so, that's quite a mess. If it keeps working > as is, but only suggests the new way is better... that's livable. > > My BIOSes (6 systems here at home, all RELENG_4) work just fine with > dangerously dedicated... Well, my BIOSen get mad, and we have Intel L440GX+ boards. The onboard Adaptec really gets mad if ALL of the disks aren't sliced -- it crashes boot2! Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message