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| author | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-01-23 21:05:22 +0000 |
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| committer | joerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-01-23 21:05:22 +0000 |
| commit | 694c3b89fa78d120d21fe9fd86a33a80e9862348 (patch) | |
| tree | ef14fd7119f589e718614a76819295b733682c38 /usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c | |
| parent | 7b8816e057b0206b59422068d4ca7a46def56b43 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-694c3b89fa78d120d21fe9fd86a33a80e9862348.zip FreeBSD-src-694c3b89fa78d120d21fe9fd86a33a80e9862348.tar.gz | |
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 'usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c index 0f9bf5b..8b9096c 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c +++ b/usr.sbin/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" |
