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To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:05:36 BST."
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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 ?

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