Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)

2000-07-26 Thread Fred Clift
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:29:08PM -0600, Fred Clift wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > the geometry of a disk. At the very least, dangerously dedicated mode > > > should specify a valid length for the slice the way that t

Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)

2000-07-24 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > So, I think leaving things the way they have been (letting the > administrator decide at installation time) with regard to > "dangerously dedicated" is the way to go. Perhaps with a little > more verbose warning about "don't try this unless you know w

Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)

2000-07-24 Thread Chad R. Larson
As I recall, John Baldwin wrote: >> Folks, gemoetries are for brain damaged PC operating systems. >> All the box needs to boot is a proper MBR. BIOSes that >> don't boot from a dedicated disk are _broken_. > > No, they are actually smart in that they attempt to use a geometry > that matches the M

Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)

2000-07-23 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sun, 23-Jul-2000 at 18:57:12 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > > > > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > > > > > John Baldwin once stated: > > > > > > > > > Folks, gemoetries are for brain damaged P

Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)

2000-07-23 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Sun, 23-Jul-2000 at 15:33:43 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Doug White once stated: > > => 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 comp

Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)

2000-07-23 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > Hello all! > > > > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > > > John Baldwin once stated: > > > > > > Folks, gemoetries are for brain damaged PC operating systems. > > All the box needs to boot is a proper MBR. BIOSes that > > don't

Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated)

2000-07-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
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 fd