Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 02:07:15 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speaking of 3.4... Message-ID: <199911240707.CAA00642@rtfm.newton> In-Reply-To: <199911240629.WAA01121@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Nov 23, 1999 10:29:56 pm"
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Mike Smith once stated: => =Actually, these "other" operating systems avoid the issue by not => =offering the functionality in question at all. => => As I mentioned earlier, NT installed onto a SCSI Jazz drive and => continues to boot from it -- with two IDE disks in the way. Even => though it appears as drive J: in the diskmanager. I don't remember it => EVER having a problem counting the true memory amount, either, may be => others do. = =FreeBSD will do this just fine as well. Ok, but there is indeed at least one other OS, where "the functionality in question" IS offered... Cookie 1. => My point was, that I was told with a very similarly convincing tones, => that it will never happen. =*shrug* They were wrong. We rose above ourselves and fixed it. You =should be happy. I am. But only 27 hours ago, in 199911231817.KAA01017@dingo.cdrom.com you responded to my (referring to the "unable to mount root" problem): > The inability to boot after a seemingly successful > install should be eliminated... with: The only way to guarantee this is to cause the install to fail unless the installation program can be 100% certain of the bootability of the install. => WHY CAN'T IT BE AUTOMATED? = =It has been. I don't understand what the problem is here. It was a =problem. It's been fixed. Unless there is some gross misunderstanding, this last paragraph contradicts the one I quoted from your earlier e-mail. Cookie 2. Now, if you just take back that "whining" remark, I'll stop counting cookies, and will try to live with the sorrow, that I had to be so rude as to insist... I'll even put the 8) sign in, even though t.b. charter expressly (and rightfully) forbids them. Yours, -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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