Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:09:10 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: jhb@freebsd.org (John Baldwin), 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: <3071.1035486550@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:05:36 BST." <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org>
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In message <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine write s: >> 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. "the right thing" being ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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