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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/130698: [boot] FreeBSD 8-CURRENT does not start any more
 since Dec. 10th [regression]
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The following reply was made to PR kern/130698; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, tps@vr-web.de
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Subject: Re: kern/130698: [boot] FreeBSD 8-CURRENT does not start any more
 since Dec. 10th [regression]
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 14:39:26 -0400

 gpart does not support "dangerously dedicated" disks and they have been 
 deprecated in FreeBSD for a long time now.  The reason gpart rejects it 
 is the partition does not start on a cylinder boundary (instead it 
 starts one sector into the disk).  You can ask marcel@ if he wants to 
 make an exception, but DD disks have been deprecated for quite a while 
 and I believe sysinstall has not let you create them for several years now.
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin