Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:53:06 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD filesystems & MBR Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990220120830.691A-100000@bakery.chiu.nom> In-Reply-To: <19990220010713.3722.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Greg Black wrote: > > Optionally, but not recommended, you can make the disk "dangerously > > dedicated". > > I keep seeing references that repeat this advice, but I have not > seen any compelling reasons for it. Is there any real reason > why, on a machine that will never run anything but FreeBSD, this > could present a problem? The only "real" reason that I know of is the one that came across the lists recently. As I understand it, the BIOS on a particular machine gets confused by the absence of a "normal" partition table, causing it to pass bogus data to the boot blocks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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