From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 12 16:59:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hydrogen.fircrest.net (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6C515E0D for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.fircrest.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) id QAA27851; Wed, 12 May 1999 16:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990512165906.57576@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:59:06 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the new config and booting References: <199905120817.KAA03605@peedub.muc.de> <199905122203.PAA01488@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199905122203.PAA01488@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:03:06PM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith scribbled this message on May 12: > > > > no, it's a "dangerously dedicated" SCSI disk. > > That's never a good start. well, I wonder if other people have noticed this also, but if you don't have a previous boot loader installed (like windows/dos) the ONLY way to install onto a machine is TO use a dangerously dedicated mode... I did a couple installs using normal slices and standard MBR, and when the machine restarted, I got the "Operating System Missing" error... the only way I was able to install on the system was to use dangerous dedicated mode... I've seen this happen a couple times w/ 3.0-R and 3.1-19990328-STABLE IIRC... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message