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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:02:45 +0200
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Cc: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>, Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>,
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Subject: Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN
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Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
> Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> writes:
> > Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that
> > GEOM_PART would be happy with?
> it may be as little as overwriting bytes 510 and 511 of block0.
> (the last 2 bytes of the block are a magic number)
>
> this would stop the fdisk taster from recognising it as an fdisk
> block and teh disklabel taster would recognise the disklabel.

If by "block0" you mean the very first sector of the disk, it will also
stop the BIOS from booting from that disk...

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