Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:03:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> 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, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <20021024233323.GV53469@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021024151029.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org> <XFMail.20021024151029.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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