Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:11:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Message-ID: <19981007121121.K27781@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981006150708.32072@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:07:08PM -0500 References: <19981006071237.02443@follo.net> <19981006155341.C27781@freebie.lemis.com> <19981006083809.00946@follo.net> <19981006173417.64829@welearn.com.au> <19981006174328.65315@follo.net> <19981006150708.32072@futuresouth.com>
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On Tuesday, 6 October 1998 at 15:07:08 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 05:43:28PM +0200, Eivind Eklund woke me up to tell me: >> DO use 'dangerously dedicated' mode if you're only going to have >> FreeBSD on the machine. There are a number of problems that >> can occur with DOS slices; the FreeBSD disklabel is immune to >> this. (Don't need to change if your system is already >> working, however.) > > I'm not sure if that's a good idea. > Notably with those lovely Providence dual PPro motherboards (tho I'm sure > elsewhere too), the SCSI controller wouldn't boot a dangerously dedicated > partition. I guess it really did need a fdisk table, or something. I've > never had any problems with DOS slices; what were you referring to? I recommend this in my book somewhere, too. People are continually having problems with DOS partitions. There are several different ways to shoot yourself in the foot when installing FreeBSD, and most result in an ostensibly correct installation and a system which is unable to boot. I was pleased to see that this isn't just a FreeBSD problem; last month I did a workshop at the AUUG meeting in Sydney, and was given a machine with a new 4 GB disk to do it on. They had installed DOG on the machine, just to see if it would work. It did, but DOG FDISK only saw about 290 MB (the remainder over 4 GB). Are you really sure that this MB doesn't recognize a dedicated disk? It would be the first case I have ever heard of. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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