Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 12:58:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. Message-ID: <m0sVzV0-00021gC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199507120604.IAA09165@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jul 12, 95 08:04:27 am
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>From the keyboard of J Wunsch:
> > 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.
One of them was me. The system in question has never seen another OS than
*BSD and it will never. (It will never see any commercial PC SYSV U*nx,
any Microsoft OS, nor any IBM OS). I always used the whole disk for *BSD
since 386BSD and it went fine until 2.0.5 ... :-(
(Yes, i know, "you have the source, Luke" !)
I had to install a small DOS partition (shudder ..) and after i did that,
i was able to boot 2.0.5. But it uses a disk geometry which causes another
(shudder ...), sigh.
So to repeat the original question: is there any drawback in using this
totally strange cylinder/head/sector layout i was forced to use ????
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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