From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 1 23:41: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7437E14F49 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 23:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA22944; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 08:38:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mike Smith Cc: Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Aug 1999 23:30:48 PDT." <199908020630.XAA01845@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 08:38:56 +0200 Message-ID: <22942.933575936@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199908020630.XAA01845@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> In message <199908020207.MAA23787@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >> >> >All of the above only work for the easy case where the whole disk is >> >being labelled. In general, the disk size must be reduced to the slice >> >size before applying a label to a slice. >> >> And that is the problem, it seems that "dangerously dedicated" doesn't >> boot anymore... > >It never did, on many hardware variants. Use "truly dedicated" >instead, which should still work fine. My semantics may be wrong on these two: what I'm talking about is what is in handbook chapter 8 "Using command line utilities " gives you a disk which doesn't boot. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message