Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:11:53 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <3177.1035486713@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:10:29 EDT." <XFMail.20021024151029.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.20021024151029.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: >How about Adaptec SCSI BIOS's and other "smart" BIOS's that look >at the MBR to guess what geometry you are using so that they can >adjust their BIOS to DTRT? These choke if you don't have a valid >MBR. MBR's are part of the i386 defacto architecture, deal. Well, only for disks you want to boot, but otherwise: spot on. -- 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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