Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:57:56 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com>, "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap Message-ID: <1298480276.2895.5.camel@core.nessbank> In-Reply-To: <201102231133.10571.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4D35CFFB.3010302@freebsd.org> <20110222205741.GA34103@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4D65328D.3050709@jrv.org> <201102231133.10571.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 11:33 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > That is mostly true. There are some SCSI BIOSes that would examine the MBR > and infer what C/H/S geometry the OS was expecting from the MBR. The > original dedicated disk dummy MBR triggered a divide by zero in one of these > BIOS ROMs. I guess RAID BIOS's read through the MBR too: my Gigabyte board has an Intel AHCI BIOS (1.20E seems to be the problematic revision) with fakeraid that hangs (requiring a CMOS reset) if you install FreeBSD physically after Windows 7 x64 for example - and some IBM laptops have a bug related to repair partitions and FreeBSD too (http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Laptops), so they must read the MBR too. -- Bruce Cran
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