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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.


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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!


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