From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 29 04:45:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA20064 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 04:45:20 -0800 Received: from sunny.bog.msu.su (dima@sunny.bog.msu.su [158.250.20.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA20030 ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 04:45:11 -0800 Received: (from dima@localhost) by sunny.bog.msu.su (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA29966; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:44:20 +0300 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:44:18 +0300 (????) From: Dmitry Khrustalev To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Steven Wallace , stable@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probs with latest stable snap In-Reply-To: <4836.814910348@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > First, when installing, I tried to create two freebsd partitions on the > > same drive. When it tried to format the partitions, I got > > "/dev/rsd0s1a: 'a' partition is unavailable" > > DO NOT DO THAT. I guess I'll have to make it an error to do so since > there are a lot of ways you can hose yourself if you do this (for one > thing, it will only boot from the first partition it finds). > You have to use two freebsd partitions in order to get bad144 working on disks with more then 1024 cylinders. Most edsi's need this. -Dima > Jordan >