From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 25 14:34:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.veriohosting.com (gatekeeper.veriohosting.com [192.41.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6553537B9F2 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:34:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@veriohosting.com) Received: by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:34:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from unknown(192.168.1.7) by gatekeeper.veriohosting.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma020949; Tue, 25 Jul 00 15:33:50 -0600 Received: from vespa.orem.iserver.com (vespa.orem.iserver.com [192.168.1.144]) by orca.orem.veriohosting.com [Verio Web Hosting, Inc. 801.437.0200] (8.8.8) id PAA87944; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:33:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:42:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.orem.iserver.com To: Doug White Cc: Mike Hoskins , Mikhail Teterin , Thomas Stromberg , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > reinstalled or somesuch? If so, that's quite a mess. If it keeps working > > as is, but only suggests the new way is better... that's livable. > > > > My BIOSes (6 systems here at home, all RELENG_4) work just fine with > > dangerously dedicated... > > Well, my BIOSen get mad, and we have Intel L440GX+ boards. The onboard > Adaptec really gets mad if ALL of the disks aren't sliced -- it crashes > boot2! put in a 'valid' partition table for your dedicated disks on your L440GX+ board based boxes and your problem will magically go away. I can send you the snippet of code I use to do this if you want it. Fred -- Fred Clift - fred@veriohosting.com -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message