From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 31 17:13:06 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA07580 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 17:13:06 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA07573 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 17:12:49 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA05097; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:43:07 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511010113.LAA05097@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: boot disk.... To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:43:06 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510310816.JAA11022@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 31, 95 09:16:26 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1098 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > Nothing wrong with this. I had infact even considered a scenario where > > the bootstrap, if it didn't find a BSD slice where it thought one should > > be, would search the disk looking for it, and (if possible?) make whatever > > corrections might be in order. > > I hope you won't break the ability to boot right off sector 0, do you? That's what an MBR does. If you mean, have a disk without a sector 0 DOS-style partition table; I would say that booting from it should be a big no-no. If I understand Terry correctly, the DOS-style MBR is an Open Boot requirement anyway; you lose one track of the disk to using this scheme - is this a major problem? > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[