From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 30 7: 4:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [205.252.34.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2DA37B479; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:04:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [205.252.34.3]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9352E443; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:04:01 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9UF41841958; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:04:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14845.36321.671382.200868@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:04:01 -0500 (EST) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinux h In-Reply-To: <200010272024.e9RKOHL07526@earth.backplane.com> References: <200010272024.e9RKOHL07526@earth.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "MD" == Matt Dillon writes: MD> I think that the days of the 'dangerously dedicated partition' are MD> numbered. It has obviously caused much more havoc then people have MD> realized. We don't have time to fix it for the current release, but I I have two servers that refuse to boot unless configured with a dangerously dedicated boot disk. At boot time, the only message printed is "Missing Operating System" or some approximation of that phrase. Both of these boxes used to run BSD/OS and I did a clean install from CD for FreeBSD 4.1 on them. I *really* hope it continues to be supported as I can't bring them down long enough for a dump/restore/repartition if DD mode goes away in a future release of FreeBSD. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message