Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:21:42 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <14562.29670.896409.578807@onceler.kcilink.com> In-Reply-To: <200003231358.FAA01112@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <14553.22411.265795.429126@onceler.kcilink.com> <200003231358.FAA01112@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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>>>>> "CS" == Cy Schubert <- ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>> writes: >> Linux requires it to run, but doesn't hang forever if it doesn't >> exist. FreeBSD is the only system I've encountered so far that will >> lock up (ie, does not respond to any keyboard requests or terminate CS> What's there to scan? The MBR always lives on the first sector of the CS> disk. If it hung it was the BIOS that hung because it had nothing else CS> to do. So, your telling me that on this one box I have, that Linux will boot and recognize the disks, BSD/OS will boot and install, FreeDOS will boot and recognize the disks but FreeBSD will boot but WON'T recognize the disks (until I install an FDISK partition table) is the fault of the BIOS? Why on earth would the FreeBSD kernel be using the BIOS to access the disk? We must be speaking different languages, because I just can't seem to explain it well enough to you. So I guess I'll just go away because it is way to hostile around here. I really hope that the BSD/OS engineers bring a more civilized tone to this FreeBSD arena. They sure are much nicer even when your not paying them. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 PGP & MIME spoken here http://www.kciLink.com/home/khera/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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