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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:42:59 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Fred Clift <fred@veriohosting.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251542000.63747-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241207020.90317-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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> > 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!

put in a 'valid' partition table for your dedicated disks on your L440GX+
board based boxes and your problem will magically go away.  I can send you
the snippet of code I use to do this if you want it.


Fred

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Fred Clift - fred@veriohosting.com -- Remember: If brute 
force doesn't work, you're just not using enough.



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