Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 16:17:41 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. Message-ID: <199803100517.QAA02316@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>// User actions in the 3 cases: >// 1. Hope this doesn't happen. It is very unlikely to happen for boot disks. > >Most PC BIOSes (if not all) will not boot from a disk if the first block >does not have the 0xAA55 signature. Indeed, they will not boot without >a valid MBR. The FreeBSD boot blocks can boot from any fd, wd, sd or wfd disk supported by the BIOS. >Have you ever seen such a case ? Or does this discussion apply to I probably have, but don't remember. One of my systems loads the boot blocks from wd0 and the boot blocks the kernel from sd0. sd0 is all-FreeBSD and would work with all-zeros in the MBR. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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