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Date:      Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:59:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908020957500.50385-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <22942.933575936@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <199908020630.XAA01845@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
> >> In message <199908020207.MAA23787@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >> 
> >> >All of the above only work for the easy case where the whole disk is
> >> >being labelled.  In general, the disk size must be reduced to the slice
> >> >size before applying a label to a slice.
> >> 
> >> And that is the problem, it seems that "dangerously dedicated" doesn't 
> >> boot anymore...
> >
> >It never did, on many hardware variants.  Use "truly dedicated" 
> >instead, which should still work fine.
> 
> My semantics may be wrong on these two: what I'm talking about is
> what is in handbook chapter 8 "Using command line utilities " gives
> you a disk which doesn't boot.

What BIOS do you have?

Did you try the tutorial version? 

I know machines that won't boot disks missing MS partition tables.

Doug White                               
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