From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 20 15:56: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFCE37B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:55:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fAKNtTV31156; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:55:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:55:29 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Cc: Doug White , Sandeep Joshi , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" Message-ID: <20011120155529.A26293@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011118014125.B5EDA38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011118014125.B5EDA38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:41:25PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 05:41:25PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > The problem is that you cant *not* get dangerously-dedicated mode. Our > boot1 has got a dangerously-dedicated fdisk table unconditionally compiled > in. You can fix it so that it doesn't crash stuff, but we still shouldn't > be forcing it on people like that. Why haven't we just removed it? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message