Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 08:38:56 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" Message-ID: <22942.933575936@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Aug 1999 23:30:48 PDT." <199908020630.XAA01845@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In message <199908020630.XAA01845@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> In message <199908020207.MAA23787@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >> >> >All of the above only work for the easy case where the whole disk is >> >being labelled. In general, the disk size must be reduced to the slice >> >size before applying a label to a slice. >> >> And that is the problem, it seems that "dangerously dedicated" doesn't >> boot anymore... > >It never did, on many hardware variants. Use "truly dedicated" >instead, which should still work fine. My semantics may be wrong on these two: what I'm talking about is what is in handbook chapter 8 "Using command line utilities " gives you a disk which doesn't boot. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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