Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disk copying Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917205100.5533G-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970917151048.17744@lemis.com>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > It works. I do it this way all the time. All the BIOS needs to know > is how to find the first sector on the disk, and that's independent of > the BIOS. It should always work, and it should be more reliable than > BIOS booting (in particular, though it doesn't make much sense here, > your root partition can end beyond the BIOS limit). [..] > You might consider removing it until you have reasonable proof that > the problem was due to the way the disk is partitioned. OK, I can agree with you for now. I realized that I'm trying to spend money budgeted for buying a 2GB SCSI on a car stereo I don't need :), so I should be able to resolve this pretty soon. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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