From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 11:34:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5E137B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAKJfWF13969; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011201941.eAKJfWF13969@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Vivek Khera Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 not (easily) bootable In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:12:38 EST." <14873.19830.64277.304397@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:41:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >>>>> "DO" == David O'Brien writes: > > DO> Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously > DO> dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough > DO> space for boot0). Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for > DO> you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously dedicated". > > I have two machines that wouldn't boot unless I installed them in DD > mode. Am I to infer that at some date they will no longer run > FreeBSD because DD mode goes away? Nope. You will just have to install them correctly, and you'll be fine. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message