From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:19:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0507937B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAK0JhQ20116; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:19:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA16004; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:19:43 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011200019.RAA16004@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: Sam Zamarripa , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:51:00 +1030." <20001120095100.G58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001120095100.G58333@echunga.lemis.com> <200011192231.eAJMVIF09854@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <008901c05278$b71a6f50$0200000a@sam> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:19:43 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001120095100.G58333@echunga.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: As far as I know, there has been no decision to remove dedicated mode. : I for one would strongly oppose it. Arguments about bootstraps and : BIOS are bogus: on a dedicated machine, you only need a bootstrap on : the boot disk, so any additional disks can always be dedicated. But : to answer your question: if you have to change from dedicated to a : Microsoft compatible layout, yes, you'll have to rebuild all your file : systems. No it isn't bogus. You can't boot off a DD disk on some machines because the MBR is too bogus for the BIOS to cope with. The problem with DD is that we put a bogus MBR onto the disk. All that is necessary to fix it would be to put a non-bgous MBR onto the disk. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message