Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 03:33:52 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, <cvs-all@freebsd.org>, <cvs-committers@freebsd.org>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <20021026032104.P4681-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp8z0mk88q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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. Wrong yourself. Mark unfortunately understands how MBRs are supposed to work. It is a layering violating for the BIOS to look in the private parts of the bootstrap code for another subsystem. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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