From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 4 08:50:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA13872 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hades.mminternet.com (hades2.mminternet.com [207.175.72.13] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13867 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:50:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from boing@boing.com) Received: from bsd.boing.com (silver234.mminternet.com [209.241.149.234]) by hades.mminternet.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA30003 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:25:52 -0800 Received: from hanoiang (campus254.toyota.com [205.180.183.254]) by bsd.boing.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id IAA65221 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:50:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from boing@boing.com) Message-ID: <001a01be505e$2c4a0930$48ff020a@hanoiang.tms.toyota.com> From: "Geff Hanoian" To: Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:48:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Just a note for everyone when partitioning your HD for FreeBSD, if you use >the entire disk "dedicated" instead of using a DOS/other compatible master >boot record, some BIOS' won't load the FreeBSD MBR and will die. (And, I >surmise, some BIOS' may think it's a virus.) FYI, this is in the FAQ (somewhere). HP is one of the "offending" vendors. Apparently the do some sort of "checking" to make sure there are dos partitions on the disk. If dos partitions do not exist the HP vectra's print, "Read Error." User friendliness at it's best. Geff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message