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> >>>> Also, does anybody know if dangerously dedicated works :-)
> >>>
> >>> Still uses an active type 165 partition. 8)
> >>
> >> So what happens if you have two 165 partitions?  Eg, have a dummy one
> >> that's 1M or <sizeof memory * 1.1>M in size that has no FreeBSD disk
> >> label on it and comes before the real FreeBSD partition...
> >
> > No idea, yet.  The FreeBSD bootstrap might not be happy with that,
> > although if the second one was active, it ought to work.
> 
> If you use the boot manager, you can have as many type 165 slices as
> will fit in the partition table.  That shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> > I have a chance to play with one of the offending systems tonight;
> > I'm going to try as many experiments as I can.
> 
> It would be interesting to see whether the BIOS gets as far as the
> floppy and CD-ROM drives, and if so whether you can boot from them.

If you remove the hard-disk, yes.  Otherwise, it's completely dead!


Nate


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