Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:07:01 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: subtle problem du jour.... Message-ID: <v04210105b58a79187f0d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007060029420.32733-100000@inconnu.isu.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007060029420.32733-100000@inconnu.isu.edu>
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At 12:50 AM -0600 7/6/00, John Galt wrote: >Is there a quick and dirty way for the label editor to detect if >a BIOS is using LBA? This actually sounds like a setup in which >the error condition should be alerted on placing / on a cylinder >higher than 1024 rather than long after you can do anything about >it. The loader error might be a good extra, but the real place >the user should be notified of the error condition is upon creation. In theory I agree with you. In my specific case, I was trying to do something "clever" (ahem), and as such it's pretty much my own fault that the partition ended up past the 8-gig mark. The label editor would have had to have been mighty smart to realize what I was up to. So, based on the sample of what I myself was doing, I don't really think it's possible to detect this problem at creation time. A clearer message at boot time would have been appreciated, though. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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