Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:03:40 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com, jc@irbs.com Subject: Re: Slice errors Message-ID: <199503270703.RAA10742@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Yes there was a way to delete partitions using fdisk, I've been using >it to do that for a very long time. You had to say ``y'' to the >specify beg/end C/H/S and manual set them all to zero. Your changes >serously broke the usability of fdisk in that it now always writes >a very invalid partition if the user lets fdisk pick the beg/end >values :-(. It's not clear that valid partitions can start at 0. You can still create such partitions by saying ``y'' to the question and correcting the S value. >You want to fix it or should I? You fix it. >> >I am using that advice here on all my machines and it is much happier >> >about this than allowing the bogus 500000 block boot stuff live!!! >> >> I want the invalid table to just work. I tested it, but only on a >> floppy, so I want to see more bug reports about it if there are any >> bugs. >You won't see any from me on it, I always run with a valid partition >table. I've always had a minimal valid partition table of size 17 (C=1, H=1, S=17) in my biosboot/start.S, but I don't have any partitions that start at 0 here, and someone named rgrimes ;-) said that it didn't work in general, so I didn't commit the change. Bruce
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