Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 08:04:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. Message-ID: <199507120604.IAA09165@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507120211.WAA05288@lakes> from "Thomas David Rivers" at Jul 11, 95 10:11:24 pm
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As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > Well - the real story is that the installation assumed I didn't want > the BIOS translated geometry (as translated by the Adaptec 1542B) - and > I went through the entire install using the SCSI geometry... only to > find the system wouldn't boot. > > I *had* to use the translated geometry to get anything to boot. This comes up over and over again. In Usenet. In private mails/talks i'm getting. I'm not very happy that the slice code broke *many* systems that used to run before with their dedicated disks. IMHO, we should have an option to disable the slice code in case somebody wishes to use a disk dedicated to FreeBSD (perhaps even a non-bootable disk, so the BIOS braindeadness is in no way a valid reason). There are many people like me that have "mental" problems with lying about their disk geometry too much (i.e., forcing a gratuitous number like 63/31/...) when they know it (at least, partially) better, and the disk is never to see anything else than (Free)BSD in this life. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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