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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot Manager & 1Gb Seagate ST31230N Date: 23 Nov 1995 22:41:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <492tak$r6g@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48ltju$lg0@eplet.mira.net.au> <48ove1$cki@jthome.jthome.com> <48qncv$fd1@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes: > |> Yes, I had similar problems here, had to DOS fdisk a small (1mb DOS) > |> partition on this disk. The first (FreeBSD) partition looks like this: > > Yes, I found the same ... > > But you don't have to keep the DOS partition. For FreeBSD 2.1, you don't have to do this anymore. Just use the "dangerously dedicated" option in the partition editor (i.e., answer the first question after ``A)ll FreeBSD'' with its non-default answer [No]). Ignore all "The detected geometry is incorrect" warnings, you don't have to care for the geometry any more... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)