From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 13 03:05:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA29060 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 03:05:34 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA29054 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 03:05:30 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sWL5l-000I3iC; Thu, 13 Jul 95 12:02 MET DST Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.0 #16) id m0sWKbR-00021gC; Thu, 13 Jul 95 11:30 MET DST Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:30:41 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199507121801.EAA01192@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 13, 95 04:01:38 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 838 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?