Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:47:10 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c Message-ID: <10319.935430430@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:38:41 MDT." <199908231738.LAA40123@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199908231738.LAA40123@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <199908231639.JAA35380@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: >: Slightly more compatible is to use cylinder aligned end - 1 cylinder, >: many fdisk reserve the last cylinder of the disk for hardware diagnostics, >: and I still have tools around that like to scrible out there if I tell >: them to run disk last cyl diags.... > >This tickles something in my brain as well... > >Most laptops have a save partition that is the last max-ram-config + a >little bytes that would get Very Upset if you took that away from >them... Yes, but that is a differnt issue, for laptops magic may be needed, I just want to get us to the point where three or two simple commands will make a disk palatable to FreeBSD. >Don't know how to find that, however, since it varies from laptop to >laptop in an almost pathological fashion. The trick: Use Fdisk BEFORE you wipe the disk. When I get a new laptop I always boot a fixit and dd(1) the entire disk via net to another machine. More than once this has saved my butt. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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