Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:39:26 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <21117.1035567566@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2002 03:33:52 %2B1000." <20021026032104.P4681-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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In message <20021026032104.P4681-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >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. It may well be a layering violation, but it is out of our control. -- 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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