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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:08:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM
Subject:   Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency
Message-ID:  <199503190508.VAA22039@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503190501.PAA06638@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 19, 95 03:01:00 pm

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> >Bruce, it doesn't confuse me, but I have got too many emails of the type
> 
> >	I (made the following mistake) then I thought, Hmm, lets try the
> >	geometry they print at boot, and now my MSDOS is gone..
> 
> This happens because fdisk/disklabel are confused.  It shouldn't be possible
> to easily clobber a foreign partition.
> 
This happens because we print bogus information.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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