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From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
> Date: Fri 25 Oct, 2002
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis

> > > > 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?

Nobody is denying the existence of buggy BIOS implementations.

I've admitted that having to use MBR partitioning to satisfy some broken
BIOS is an unhappy fact of life, but it doesn't have to force me to use a
new (and unstable) disk partition naming scheme, it's just an implementation
detail.

		Cheers,

		Mark.

-- 
Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk>       <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."       Mark Valentine uses
"We're kind of stupid that way."   *munch* *munch*        and endorses FreeBSD
  -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>                  <http://www.freebsd.org>

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