From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jan 22 09:10:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA27742 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:10:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA27732 Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:10:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601221710.JAA27732@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: conf/963: Using the whole disk can end unbootable Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR conf/963; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: muir@idiom.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/963: Using the whole disk can end unbootable Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:55:27 +0100 (MET) As David Muir Sharnoff wrote: > > > Use a disk with > 2000 cylindars. > > >Description: > > The boot selector complains about having more than 2000 > cylindars and you're hosed. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Tell the Jordan's nice install program to use the whole thing > and not to worry about DOS. > > Then tell it to install the nice F1, F2, etc. boot selector. Do you say you've been using the ``dangerously dedicated'' option? You are assumed you know what you are doing when using it. That's why it is not the default. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)