From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 25 12:28: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0FF37BC0E; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112DE43E4A; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PJRgrF023019; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:27:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Mark Valentine , John Baldwin , cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro , Bakul Shah Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2002 05:27:21 +1000." <20021026052106.L5096-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:27:42 +0200 Message-ID: <23018.1035574062@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021026052106.L5096-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > >> > > Mark Valentine 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? > >Not quite. DD functionality hasn't been axed, so people who like it can >still use it. They can make things work by not using ****ware on which it >doesn't work. After axing, this is more painful because it involves not >using FreeBSD or maintaining huge local patches. DD is not axed, it should still work in GEOM, provided the disk holds the correct bits. -- 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