Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:11:13 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s Message-ID: <200010022211.AAA22381@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <20001003012838.A40972@nagual.pp.ru> "from Andrey A. Chernov at Oct 3, 2000 01:28:40 am"
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Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:30:22AM -0700, Robert Nordier wrote: > > rnordier 2000/10/02 10:30:22 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s > > Log: > > Go back to occupying just a single sector, reverting r1.17 - r1.20. > > Taking over the sector following the MBR causes problems on some > > machines, and the actual gains are fairly small in terms of how > > the space is presently used. > > Thanx, my BIOS just simple hangs with non-single sector boot0 Thanks for the feedback. Although we can often occupy multiple MBR sectors, we can't invariably do so. A multiple-sector boot manager needs to be flexible enough to reside anywhere on disk (eg. in a regular file system), not just hide away in the meta data. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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