From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 23 0:18:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-63-201-63-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.201.63.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF8937B9A6 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by snafu.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 667839EE01; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snafu.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA229B001; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:17:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: Doug White 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 Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Doug White wrote: > > => Your boot disk is now *required* (or will be very very soon) to have > > => a proper slice table in -CURRENT; dedicated disks are deprecated in > > => order to get a smarter boot0. > > > > Wait! Smarter then what? So it can boot NT and Win98 for some weenies, > > or, actually do something useful (not sure what, though)? Why am I to > > waste space (even so little) "to be compatible with other OSes", if > > there will never be any other OSes? > > 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... -mrh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message