From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 31 00:23:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA00624 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:23:14 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA00595 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:23:08 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA09552 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:22:51 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA29855 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:22:51 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA11022 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:16:27 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510310816.JAA11022@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: boot disk.... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:16:26 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510310225.MAA02851@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 31, 95 12:55:58 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 543 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > Nothing wrong with this. I had infact even considered a scenario where > the bootstrap, if it didn't find a BSD slice where it thought one should > be, would search the disk looking for it, and (if possible?) make whatever > corrections might be in order. I hope you won't break the ability to boot right off sector 0, do you? (Just as a reminder.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)