From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 20:52:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02675 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02666 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA05619; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Disk copying In-Reply-To: <19970917151048.17744@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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