From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 8:12:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kciLink.com [208.184.13.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1E137B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:12:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [208.184.13.196]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3218F2E443 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:12:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAKGCcP71323; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:12:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14873.19830.64277.304397@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:12:38 -0500 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2-RC1 not (easily) bootable In-Reply-To: <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3A17CDC1.7BFCA39B@eboa.com> <20001119083822.A39683@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.83 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "DO" == David O'Brien writes: DO> Why did you choose a "dangerously dedicated" install? "dangerously DO> dedicated" might go away in the future (as it doesn't leave space enough DO> space for boot0). Unless the normal slice configuration won't work for DO> you, there really is no good reason to use "dangerously dedicated". I have two machines that wouldn't boot unless I installed them in DD mode. Am I to infer that at some date they will no longer run FreeBSD because DD mode goes away? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message