Thomas Stromberg once stated:
=> > As for geometry, I tried both with and without "dangerously
=> > dedicated." My understanding was that if I used the dos partition
=> > entry method that we should be able to pick up the geometry
=> > correctly, but should I try the old dos fdisk trick as well? Also,
=> > would the adaptec setting to translate >1G be affecting this? It's
=> > on currently, which it is on all my other motherboards of similar
=> > vintage.
=>
=> Your boot disk is now *required* (or will be very very soon) to have
=> a proper slice table in -CURRENT; dedicated disks are deprecated in
=> order to get a smarter boot0.
Wait! Smarter then what? So it can boot NT and Win98 for some weenies,
or, actually do something useful (not sure what, though)? Why am I to
waste space (even so little) "to be compatible with other OSes", if
there will never be any other OSes?
=This would defititely help out at work, as I would no longer get the
=question from all of our users during the install "Should I be
=dedicated or not?"
"Yes, you should" :)
-mi
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