diego righi <[email protected]> wrote: > Big "a" slice may not be advised and not secure for production, but it > always worked.
Do you have evidence? > (and on i386 it still works, even on amd64 with the i386 bootloader) Evidence supplied? BTW, the i386 and amd64 bootloaders are largely identical. You better have evidence. > So I agree that it is not good practice but to quick test machines I've did > it many times. Quick? It takes extra steps at install time. It is slower to set it up that way. > (and never found in the FAQ nor in the manpages that it should not work) Nowhere is it promised that the FAQ is incomplete, actually the FAQ recommends in strong terms to use the default setup. The manpages do not propose such decisions, but I doubt you read man pages about this and are simply making that part up...
