Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:03:05 -0400 From: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) Message-ID: <39773ED9.B05E0EBE@rtci.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007200845250.99001-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > As for geometry, I tried both with and without "dangerously > > dedicated." My understanding was that if I used the dos partition entry > > method that we should be able to pick up the geometry correctly, but > > should I try the old dos fdisk trick as well? Also, would the adaptec > > setting to translate >1G be affecting this? It's on currently, which it is > > on all my other motherboards of similar vintage. > > Your boot disk is now *required* (or will be very very soon) to have a > proper slice table in -CURRENT; dedicated disks are deprecated in order to > get a smarter boot0. > > Speaking of boot0 you might try using boot0cfg to force packet mode. Even though this does not directly affect -STABLE right now (I hope?), I think it'd probably be a good idea to maybe turn off the dangerously dedicated option in sysinstall (or at least turn the question off). At least in -CURRENT if nowhere else, so no one shoots themself in the foot. This would defititely help out at work, as I would no longer get the question from all of our users during the install "Should I be dedicated or not?" -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ thomas r. stromberg tstromberg@rtci.com senior systems administrator http://www.afterthought.org/ research triangle commerce, inc. 1.919.657.1317 bless(\$Perl++); # the power to hack. http://www.perl.com/ #include <freebsd.h> /* the power to serve. http://www.freebsd.org/ */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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