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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
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> > 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.
> 

Just because it is wrong does not mean it does not happen.  Haven't 
we already been down this bikeshed with DD?

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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