"David O'Brien" wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:58:52PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > > First of all, the Partition Editor has the 'A' option to use all of the > > available HDD space. It creates a DOS-compatible slice (starting at > > sector 63 and ending on cylinder boundary). This is completely useless > > on servers and the help menu says that sysinstall will ask if it should > > create a DOS-compatible slice or not. However no such question is ever > > asked. > > It is NOT useless. Why do you think it is? Perhaps you don't relize > that some BIOS's wont boot from a hard disk that isn't partitioned to > agree with the specifications of the PeeCee. If you want to treat your > PC as a Sun, don't -- buy a Sun, FreeBSD runs on that too.
Hmmm, not a reason why it's useless, but certainly one case where it just plain doesn't work: I have some SCSI disks which my BIOS refuses to boot unless dangerously dedicated. Any ideas are welcome. They are all the same as this: da0: <SEAGATE ST34502LW 0005> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 4340C) Ian _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
