From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:30: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1C337B4C5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18087; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:59:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001120105211.O58333@echunga.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:59:48 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa , Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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