Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:10:32 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <200011192210.eAJMAWG03651@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 12:32:16 EST." <3A180EA0.31926227@glue.umd.edu> References: <3A180EA0.31926227@glue.umd.edu> <200011191657.eAJGvnZ63007@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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In message <3A180EA0.31926227@glue.umd.edu> Brandon Fosdick writes: : So we're going to be stuck with MS style partitions on machines that only run : FreeBSD? I don't like this idea. First, these aren't MS style partitions. They are part of the PC spec. FreeBSD is lying to the BIOS with the MBR that we put onto the disk, and that causes problems. Second, the amount of space wasted is nearly 0 (32k on most IDE disks, 64k on scsi). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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