Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:37:19 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, jhb@freebsd.org (John Baldwin), cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <17285.1035549439@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:13 %2B0200." <xzp8z0mk88q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzp8z0mk88q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> writes: >> The MBR partitioning is a feature of the MBR boot code, not of the BIOS. > >Wrong. Plenty of recent-issue BIOSen (particularly on laptops) go >down in flames if the MBR does not contain a valid partition table. Some even if the MBR doesn't contain the correct magic partitions for sleep/save images and the like. Long way or short way, MBR is not optional on the first disk on the PC architecture and consequently we should not try to hide the fact that it is there. For all other disks, people can usually label them as they like, (now including: "not at all") and GEOM will name the resulting devices in an intuitive and consistent way. -- 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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