From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 20 15: 5:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CC337B7F3 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA29795; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007202205.PAA29795@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: No /boot/loader In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Jul 20, 2000 08:46:36 am" To: Doug White Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > Disk geometry stuffup, or a 'real' disk error. > > > > Well, I put my money on real disk error, but only because it > > vindicates my position that we shouldn't have switched to this new kind of > > disk in the first place. > > > > 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. > > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org As the author of the new parts of boot0: "No". You are not required to have a proper slice table for -CURRENT. It is recommended, as you have to have it to use boot0, but you couldn't use the old boot0 with dedicated disks, either. Basically, only use dedicated modes _if_ the non-dedicated mode does not work. Also, if that happens, please let us know it is broke so we can fix it. Thanks. -- John Baldwin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message