On 27-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote:
> The real question is: Ok, so if I can't use dangerously dedicated
> mode, then how do I create a disklabel on a normal partition? Everything
> I try using fdisk and disklabel fails. fdisk will create a normal
> freebsd-dedicated dos partition, but disklabel refuses to label it.
See my previous e-mail about my slicelabel utility^Whack. If you use
sysinstall you can label the disk as well. :)
> Beyond that, our 'dangerously dedicated' disk label should at least
> contain reasonable values -- be correct enough to pass BIOS muster.
> I don't know enough about the partition format to know where the
> BIOS calculation is failing.
Errr, the dangerously dedicated label can't contain reasonable values
because it violates assumptions made by other pieces of the PC architecture.
> -Matt
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