From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 21:30:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40874151B1 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id GAA13428 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 06:30:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA08983 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:52:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Some serious gripes about `fdisk' and also `booteasy'. Date: 17 Oct 1999 03:52:45 +0200 Message-ID: <7uba5d$8o9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7377.940121847@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Will whoever is supporting/maintaining the `fdisk' program *PLEASE* fix it > so that it displays some sort of a warning when the user is just about to > partition a SCSI drive for which the on/off status of BIOS address trans- > lation (for disks larger than 1GB) _cannot_ be automatically and properly > determined by fdisk itself? fdisk? What's fdisk? Oh, you mean you don't run your drive(s) in "dangerously" dedicated mode? I wish I could bring myself to feel the appropriate amount of sympathy. > If `booteasy' is unable to boot from a given drive or from a given partition, > couldn't it at least say something like `Error 473 - Return to continue'? > I mean I _do_ understand that memory space in the boot routine is very > minimal, but at least there should be room for something small like that! There is a total of 446 Bytes available, of which currently six bytes are unused. The code is in /sys/boot/i386/boot0/, if you have installed the kernel source. I guess I'm just mean-spirited today. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message