Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:09:22 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), ru@ucb.crimea.ua (Ruslan Ermilov) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why we need two distinct MBRs in the sources? Message-ID: <199905211009.MAA06792@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <44120.927280174@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 21, 1999 02:49:34 am"
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> 1> Could it be possible to unite these ones in /src/sys/boot/i386/mbr/ ? > > It could be possible, yes. :) > > - Jordan Seems a good idea: I'll do that, unless of course Ruslan wants to do it himself. At least one of the present MBRs is a bit too strictly correct, and supports booting only from hard drive 0, which is all IBM/Microsoft officially support. It'd probably make life a bit easier to allow booting from any hard drive. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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