From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 20 12: 4:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from silky.cs.indiana.edu (silky.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.253.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3F611981 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chiuk@cs.indiana.edu) Received: (from chiuk@localhost) by silky.cs.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7/IUCS_2.21) id OAA27449; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:53:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:53:06 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Chiu X-Sender: ken@bakery.chiu.nom Reply-To: Kenneth Chiu To: Greg Black Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD filesystems & MBR In-Reply-To: <19990220010713.3722.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Greg Black wrote: > > Optionally, but not recommended, you can make the disk "dangerously > > dedicated". > > I keep seeing references that repeat this advice, but I have not > seen any compelling reasons for it. Is there any real reason > why, on a machine that will never run anything but FreeBSD, this > could present a problem? The only "real" reason that I know of is the one that came across the lists recently. As I understand it, the BIOS on a particular machine gets confused by the absence of a "normal" partition table, causing it to pass bogus data to the boot blocks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message