Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:05:36 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: jhb@freebsd.org (John Baldwin), Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1035485010.44862@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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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. -- 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>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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