From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 16: 4:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C131A15073 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 16:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA21405; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:33:58 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA06430; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:33:57 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990329093357.K413@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:33:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Paul T. Root" , "Brian D. Woodruff" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 UNstable References: <3.0.6.32.19990327211654.008b91f0@freeq.com> <199903282155.PAA26891@iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903282155.PAA26891@iaces.com>; from Paul T. Root on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 03:55:59PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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