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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1996-01-23 21:05:22 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1996-01-23 21:05:22 +0000
commit694c3b89fa78d120d21fe9fd86a33a80e9862348 (patch)
treeef14fd7119f589e718614a76819295b733682c38 /release
parent7b8816e057b0206b59422068d4ca7a46def56b43 (diff)
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Add an additional warning that a "dangerously dedicated" disk cannot have
a boot selector in sector 0. Closes PR # conf/963: Using the... Submitted by: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff)
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/sysinstall/disks.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/sysinstall/disks.c b/release/sysinstall/disks.c
index 0f9bf5b..8b9096c 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/disks.c
+++ b/release/sysinstall/disks.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* This is probably the last program in the `sysinstall' line - the next
* generation being essentially a complete rewrite.
*
- * $Id: disks.c,v 1.33 1995/12/07 10:33:39 peter Exp $
+ * $Id: disks.c,v 1.34 1995/12/11 16:32:31 jkh Exp $
*
* Copyright (c) 1995
* Jordan Hubbard. All rights reserved.
@@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ diskPartition(Device *dev, Disk *d)
"uncooperative with other potential operating systems on the\n"
"same disk. It will lead instead to a totally dedicated disk,\n"
"starting at the very first sector, bypassing all BIOS geometry\n"
- "considerations.\n"
+ "considerations. This precludes the existance of any boot\n"
+ "manager or other stuff in sector 0, since the BSD bootstrap\n"
+ "will live there.\n"
"You will run into serious trouble with ST-506 and ESDI drives\n"
"and possibly some IDE drives (e.g. drives running under the\n"
"control of sort of disk manager). SCSI drives are considerably\n"
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