From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 25 14:27:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C04237B5C7 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@veriohosting.com) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:27:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.7) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma018927; Tue, 25 Jul 00 15:27:09 -0600 Received: from vespa.orem.iserver.com (vespa.orem.iserver.com [192.168.1.144]) by orca.orem.veriohosting.com [Verio Web Hosting, Inc. 801.437.0200] (8.8.8) id PAA87279; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:27:08 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:36:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.orem.iserver.com To: Isaac Waldron Cc: FreeBSD-Stable List Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) In-Reply-To: <005a01bff4e5$3a9080a0$0100000a@waldron.house> 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 > problems that can happen if you don't use one. I think that the option for > a dedicated disk shouldn't even be presented in the novice install, one > should have to set an option in the appropriate screeen in sysinstall to get > a dangerously dedicated disk. Or even better, make it so that disklabel, when putting on the mbr automatically puts in a 'correct' partition table entry rather than the broken one it does now. -- Fred Clift - fred@veriohosting.com -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message