From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 16:33:27 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F4537B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:33:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3865543E3B; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 29BAE812AE; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:03:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:03:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: John Baldwin Cc: Mark Valentine , Bruce Evans , Bakul Shah , Takahashi Yoshihiro , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <20021024233323.GV53469@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 24 October 2002 at 15:10:29 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 24-Oct-2002 Mark Valentine wrote: >>> 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. > > 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. They do? How do my -CURRENT machines work then? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message