From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 13:39:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DC137B42F for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8980 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 21:38:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Dec 2001 21:38:42 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011209102129.F97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:38:39 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Dec-01 Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Peter Wemm wrote: > >> There shouldn't *be* bootblocks on non-boot disks. >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da$n count=1 >> >> Dont use "disklabel -B -rw da$n auto". Use "disklabel -rw da$n auto". > > All my disks have bootblocks and (spare) boot partitions. All the > bootblocks are DD mode. I don't see any point in using obsolete fdisk > tables. (There's IMHO only one purpose obsolete fdisk tables are good > for, co-operation with other operating systems in the same machine. > None of my machines uses anything else than FreeBSD.) Well, since they are a de facto part of the PC architecture they are also good so that you don't break BIOS's. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message