Date: Thu, 8 Jun 95 17:21:19 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: temp@temptation.interlog.com, hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem Message-ID: <9506082321.AA27767@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199506081853.LAA08408@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 8, 95 11:53:12 am
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> > You should run pfdisk.exe from a DOS disk and report the partition > > information that exists on the drive. > pfdisk won't see it if it uses the BIOS. It will if you boot off a DOS floppy (such that the HD MBR isn't installed when you go looking). > boot -v will tell you. > > > The DM loads code in it's MBR to redirect INT 13/INT 21 by subtracting > > 64 sectors (to account for itself) and then translating subsequent BIOS > > calls relative to the area immediately after their MBR. > 63 sectors. I always get that confused. It's irrelevent without the DM boot stuff anyway, since all the offsets are off by (63). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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