Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:33:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>, "Brian D. Woodruff" <wood@eris.quintessential.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable Message-ID: <19990329093357.K413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199903282155.PAA26891@iaces.com>; from Paul T. Root on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 03:55:59PM -0600 References: <3.0.6.32.19990327211654.008b91f0@freeq.com> <199903282155.PAA26891@iaces.com>
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On Sunday, 28 March 1999 at 15:55:59 -0600, Paul T. Root wrote: >>> - Did you install new boot blocks? >> >> yup. "dangerously dedicated" FreeBSD ones, no boot manager, cos we *LIKE* >> being dangerously dedicated. >> >>> - Did you build your own kernel? > > I've found that dangerously dedicated fails much more often than just > making a FBSD (165) slice, even when it's the whole disk. You'll often > run into geometry problems this way. Which, btw, I suspect in this case. I've been using "dangerously dedicated" disks since I started using BSD 7 years ago. I've never had trouble of this nature, but I have when using non-dedicated disks. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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