From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 22:21:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11560 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11554 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA17024; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:21:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Matthew Soffen cc: Norman C Rice , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New problem.. It will not boot from HD... In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980204173621.00a0c9c0@soffen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Matthew Soffen wrote: > This is a suggestion for the FAQ/Install manual people: Listening. I maintain the diskformat tutorial. > Put the not to the problem with some award bios' into the > install document. And you may just reccomend the non-dangerous > install since it is only a few cylinders anyways. I'll try to understand this, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What part are you talking about with the award bios? This depends a lot on your setup. My boot disk is running standard mode but my extra 2G is dangerously dedicated and the world is a happy place. I did run into trouble when I was playing with an IDE disk in dangerously dedicated mode; I had a note to the effect of `no dedicated boot disks' in the diskformat tutorial, but Greg Lemis encouraged me to remove the ref, so I did. Perhaps a YMMV is appropriate. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major