From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 12 00:54:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA24137 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:54:34 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA24050 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:53:39 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA15126; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:53:28 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA28149 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:53:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA09165 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:04:27 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507120604.IAA09165@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:04:27 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199507120211.WAA05288@lakes> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Jul 11, 95 10:11:24 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1184 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > Well - the real story is that the installation assumed I didn't want > the BIOS translated geometry (as translated by the Adaptec 1542B) - and > I went through the entire install using the SCSI geometry... only to > find the system wouldn't boot. > > I *had* to use the translated geometry to get anything to boot. This comes up over and over again. In Usenet. In private mails/talks i'm getting. I'm not very happy that the slice code broke *many* systems that used to run before with their dedicated disks. IMHO, we should have an option to disable the slice code in case somebody wishes to use a disk dedicated to FreeBSD (perhaps even a non-bootable disk, so the BIOS braindeadness is in no way a valid reason). There are many people like me that have "mental" problems with lying about their disk geometry too much (i.e., forcing a gratuitous number like 63/31/...) when they know it (at least, partially) better, and the disk is never to see anything else than (Free)BSD in this life. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)