Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:44:36 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: hausen@punkt.de (Patrick M. Hausen) Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <200007241844.LAA14420@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200007231444.QAA94743@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> from "Patrick M. Hausen" at "Jul 23, 0 04:44:56 pm"
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As I recall, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Folks, gemoetries are for brain damaged PC operating systems. > All the box needs to boot is a proper MBR. BIOSes that > don't boot from a dedicated disk are _broken_. I agree. Which is not to say there aren't some =broken= BIOSs out there. Earlier Compaq systems wouldn't boot unless the disk had a special signature in the boot records (probably a cheezy way to force you to buy replacement disks from Compaq. Newer Compaqs no longer refuse to boot, but the BIOS does have special support for a special diagnostic partition that will boot if you hit F10 right after the RAM check. Which is why, if I have the choice, I refuse to buy Compaq hardware. So, I think leaving things the way they have been (letting the administrator decide at installation time) with regard to "dangerously dedicated" is the way to go. Perhaps with a little more verbose warning about "don't try this unless you know what you're doing" thrown in. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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