Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT

1999-06-22 Thread Anonymous
Doug White schrieb: > > Some PC BIOSes won't boot a disk without a MS partition table. Try > booting a dangerously dedicated disk on a Phoenix machine and you'll see > what I mean. Hmm, I remember having exact this problem with a machine (Phoenix BIOS). After some hacks to the secondary boot I

Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT

1999-06-21 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Bruce Evans once wrote: > >that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large > >partitions take performance hits. > > > >alternative is to change MAXPARTITIONS? to 16? > > One reason is that the slice data format is better. It doesn't have > arbitrary limits like 8 o

Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT

1999-06-21 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, attila wrote: > am one of those who suffers from lack of politically correct > attitude -- I dont do M$lop (refuse to), so why should I > worry about slices? never need slices before M$lop however, > that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and to