From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 21:09:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA00442 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:09:28 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA00435 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:09:27 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA22039; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:08:36 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503190508.VAA22039@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:08:34 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM In-Reply-To: <199503190501.PAA06638@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 19, 95 03:01:00 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 564 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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 -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'