From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 28 10:51:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF8F37B402; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA27554; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:46:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAh.aOM1; Tue Nov 28 11:46:20 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10669; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:50:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011281850.LAA10669@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) To: fclift@verio.net (Fred Clift) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:50:37 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), fclift@verio.net (Fred Clift), opentrax@email.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Fred Clift" at Nov 27, 2000 08:55:27 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Interesting stuff about the bios checksum of the mbr. Is this something > we can work with to be compatable against. Perhaps I dont fully understand > the issue... I've sent you references to most of the information, under speperate cover, including a pointer to Microsoft's multiboot utility that they don't publicize, and which may only work with Windows. One of the references shows a fully disassembled set of boot routines for several OS's which have conforming boot blocks. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message