Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:30:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. Message-ID: <m0sWKbR-00021gC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199507121801.EAA01192@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 13, 95 04:01:38 am
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>From the keyboard of Bruce Evans:
>
> >> > I *had* to use the translated geometry to get anything to boot.
[...]
> >I always used the whole disk for *BSD
> >since 386BSD and it went fine until 2.0.5 ... :-(
>
> Why didn't you use the existing (whole-disk) slice? The one created by
> copying the boot blocks over the MBR isn't acceptable to foreign OS's
> or disk managers, but you don't wan't those, and it is acceptable to
> FreeBSD.
Hmm. The install prog has the choices 1) use a bootmgr 2) use a std MBR
and 3) don't touch the MBR. With 1) and 2) i was not able to boot, shall
i use 3) ? What if the disk were a virgin one without any existing "slices" ?
hellmuth
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