Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: conf/963: Using the whole disk can end unbootable Message-ID: <199601232110.NAA16855@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/963; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: conf/963: Using the whole disk can end unbootable Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:45:53 +0100 (MET) As David Muir Sharnoff wrote: > > Warning text isn't needed. Just don't ask me which boot selector to > use. I didn't go seek it out. I wouldn't have specified if it hadn't > of asked. (I did a "commit" to start the process going, so perhaps if > I had written the partition information first it wouldn't have asked, > but I still think there is a bug in there.) I regularly doing this using just `commit', and it never happened to me. But maybe there's a bug, yes. sysinstall should base the decision to ask for the MBR contents based on the fact whether the FreeBSD slice starts at sector 0 or not. By now, this decision is made based on the history of entered commands, i.e. only if you have actually been selecting ``dangerously dedicated'' just a few seconds prior, it will supress the question. This doesn't account for cases where the disk is already in a state where the FreeBSD slice is at the very beginning (which could happen for various reasons). > * It also warns that it eats up the disk ``from the very first sector''. > > Or at this point, is should say "precluding any possible boot selector > (not that you would need one anyway)" Ok, i will add this. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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