From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 24 12:21:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2739137BBEF for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14693; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:21:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200007241921.MAA14693@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) In-Reply-To: from Adrian Filipi-Martin at "Jul 23, 0 06:57:12 pm" To: adrian@ubergeeks.com Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:21:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com, hausen@punkt.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > Is the requirement of an MBR going to apply to removable media like MO > drives? I've only ever gotten these to work in "dangerously > dedicated" mode. Interesting question. On our Pyramid systems, the tool that installs a partitioning table into the PDF of a SCSI device is called "dkpart". It has an option that can load the partition table into the running kernel without touching the drive, specifically for read-only devices like CD-ROMs and Magneto Optical devices. Seems like a useful feature. -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