From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 2 15:12:58 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from c2-dbn-59.dial-up.net (c2-dbn-59.dial-up.net [196.34.155.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C092337B502; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id AAA22381; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:11:14 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200010022211.AAA22381@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s In-Reply-To: <20001003012838.A40972@nagual.pp.ru> "from Andrey A. Chernov at Oct 3, 2000 01:28:40 am" To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:11:13 +0200 (SAST) Cc: Robert Nordier , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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