Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:23:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Mailer-Daemon@probity.mcc.ac.uk: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender] Message-ID: <3989F0FB.69B41A88@urx.com> References: <20000803140833.A63622@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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j mckitrick wrote: > > in a previous message it was explained that 'dangerously dedicated' is called > that because sometimes the BIOS will not recognize a boot block without a > valid slice table. Does this affect my being able to reformat the HD and > reinstall windows if i ever sell my laptop? Or am i stuck with freeBSD > forever on this drive? Yes! No! You have to do something before you sell it. I had a DD drive (3 actually) that wouldn't boot past the bios doing the early enquiry to the drives. If I used DD it would hang. It didn't get close to actually booting. I walked down the drives as I removed DD. Since I couldn't boot from even a floppy, removal was called LLF, i.e, Low Level Format. The LLF program from the manufacturer would do an IDE LLF at the I/O & IRQ level and didn't require a boot. You had to remove the drive from the bios but still leave it attached. I started calling DD dangerously DUMB. I thought the people that had created it had reached their Peter principal and the manufacturers had done a dance around them. I really think the manufacturers had gone clueless but that is what I had available to purchase. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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