From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 9 06:10:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2505B106566C for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 06:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC31D8FC14 for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 06:10:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n496A2QZ047854 for ; Sat, 9 May 2009 06:10:02 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n496A2A1047853; Sat, 9 May 2009 06:10:02 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 06:10:02 GMT Message-Id: <200905090610.n496A2A1047853@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Thomas Schweikle Cc: Subject: Re: kern/130698: [boot] FreeBSD 8-CURRENT does not start any more since Dec. 10th [regression] X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Thomas Schweikle List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 06:10:03 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/130698; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Thomas Schweikle To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/130698: [boot] FreeBSD 8-CURRENT does not start any more since Dec. 10th [regression] Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 08:06:41 +0200 This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_vrwf103-2109-1241849215-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 06.05.2009, 20:39 Uhr, schrieb John Baldwin : > gpart does not support "dangerously dedicated" disks and they have been= =20 > deprecated in FreeBSD for a long time now. The reason gpart rejects it= =20 > is the partition does not start on a cylinder boundary (instead it =20 > starts one sector into the disk). You can ask marcel@ if he wants to = > make an exception, but DD disks have been deprecated for quite a while = =20 > and I believe sysinstall has not let you create them for several years = =20 > now. Hmmmmm. I shortly installed FreeBSD 6.4 from CD-Rom and since I could not boot from a real partititon I decided to create a DD disk. sysinstall did it for me without any warning ... Shure it is deprecated, but at now I am shure it is possible as before to create DD disks using sysinstall. I'll test sysinstall on FreeBSD 7.2 and FreeBSD Head next. Will take a while, since I do not have an installable PC at hand. --=20 Thomas --=_vrwf103-2109-1241849215-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12-svn4966 (MingW32) Comment: GnuPT 2.9.2 iEYEARECAAYFAkoFHX4ACgkQJuPdOes4UCQvuACfWmvSgMPed4uqR2ziPiqfhhcu yKwAnAobrSL7vlbqoGMRo715WS7+AWIj =QM8b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_vrwf103-2109-1241849215-0001-2--