From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 24 7: 0:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from privatecube.privatelabs.com (privatecube.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF7A37B842 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@virtual-estates.net) Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (misha.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.6]) by privatecube.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA18587; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:59:32 -0400 Received: from virtual-estates.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by misha.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26515; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:55:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@virtual-estates.net) Message-Id: <200007241355.JAA26515@misha.privatelabs.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:55:48 -0400 (EDT) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: Doug White , Thomas Stromberg , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000724081052.A87673@curry.mchp.siemens.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24 Jul, Andre Albsmeier wrote: = > => Wait! Smarter then what? So it can boot NT and Win98 for some = > => weenies, or, actually do something useful (not sure what, = > => though)? Why am I to waste space (even so little) "to be = > => compatible with other OSes", if there will never be any other = > => OSes? = > = = > =So you'll be compatible with your BIOS as well. Many BIOSen get = > =really, really torqued if your partition table isn't normal. = > = > I'm yet to see a BIOS, for which this is true. May be, I'm just = > lucky... = = You are lucky. Try some Siemens crap with their Phoenix BIOS. They = simply say "Read error" if you wanted to use dangerously dedicated = mode. I have been bitten by this a lot of times. Well, I'm all for support for those unfortunate among us, who have to deal with crappy hardware. Just don't force the rest to it... -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message