From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 6:12:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294C537B61A for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:12:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12cT7g-000DNK-00; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:12:00 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA07033; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:12:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:12:00 +0100 From: J McKitrick To: a2i support account Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <20000404141200.B6969@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000404101316.6F8A899EA0@waltz.rahul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000404101316.6F8A899EA0@waltz.rahul.net>; from support@rahul.net on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:13:16AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:13:16AM -0700, a2i support account wrote: > Vivek Khera writes: > > >So I guess I'll just go away because > >it is way to hostile around here. > > Here is my algorithm, which has worked so far on a number of machines: > > 1. Set the disk type in the BIOS to be NORMAL. > 2. Install FreeBSD 'dangerously dedicated'. > 3. If it hangs at boot time, don't reinstall, simply > go into the BIOS and change the disk type to be LBA. Reboot. > > Only if the above fails should you fall back to reinstalling with a > partition table. I did a dangerously dedicated install on my laptop, and then after reading these posts i got concerned. But so far i have not had any problems. Of course, i won't be installing windows again, either. ;-) jm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org Dear Microsoft: "Your tyranny i was part of, is now cracking on every side Now your own life is in danger. Your Empire is on fire." Front 242 ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message