From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 9:44: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7249D37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13837; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAJHi0b66482; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:44:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:44:00 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jamil Taylor Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 not (easily) bootable Message-ID: <20001119094400.A66448@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3A17CDC1.7BFCA39B@eboa.com> <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A1806EA.6E56BBDD@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A1806EA.6E56BBDD@pobox.com>; from jamil_taylor@pobox.com on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:59:22AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:59:22AM -0500, Jamil Taylor wrote: > What if you have multiple drives in your system? Even more reason to use slices -- presumably at least one of the other two have a M$ OS on it. > Wouldn't "dangerously dedicated" yield more disk space for use? Surely you can spare the 1MB or so using a proper MBR and slice table would take away from you. > No other operating systems use that drive, so I saw no reason not to > make it dangerously dedicated. But it is a good idea to mark the disk properly so M$ utils and things like Partition Magic, System Commander, etc.. will know that disk contains data. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message