Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:59:48 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <XFMail.001120105948.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001120105211.O58333@echunga.lemis.com>
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On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. > So you put a Microsoft partition table on the boot disk. That doesn't > mean you need it on the other disks. It is NOT a 'MS partition table'. It doesn't infect your computer with evil and FreeBSD MS viruses or anything.. > > 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. > Right, for those cases where it's needed. More specifically, we need > to now how non-bogus it needs to be. Why is DD ever _needed_? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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