From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 15:24:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE76637B869 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00228; Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:23:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3989F0FB.69B41A88@urx.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:23:55 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j mckitrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Mailer-Daemon@probity.mcc.ac.uk: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender] References: <20000803140833.A63622@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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