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> From: jhb@freebsd.org (John Baldwin)
> Date: Thu 24 Oct, 2002
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis

> And all i386 disks have MBR's cause the BIOS basically wants them
> there and won't work without them.  Pretending that they don't
> exist is just nonsense.

The MBR partitioning is a feature of the MBR boot code, not of the BIOS.

If I ever come across such a broken BIOS I will be even more grateful
if "/dev/da0c" continues to do the right thing so I don't have to change
the world due to it.

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk>       <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."       Mark Valentine uses
"We're kind of stupid that way."   *munch* *munch*        and endorses FreeBSD
  -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>                  <http://www.freebsd.org>

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