Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:27:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <200003222127.NAA01303@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:13:35 EST." <14553.14207.194024.839781@onceler.kcilink.com>
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> >>>>> "MS" == Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> writes: > > MS> Regardless of what you think, the only correct way to divvy up a disk on > MS> a PC is to start with an MBR and work down from there. There is no other > MS> way to do this properly, and to think otherwise merely demonstrates your > MS> ignorance. > > Excuse me, but an MBR is not an FDISK label. I had a system that had > BSD/OS instaled on it with no FDISK label and it worked just fine. The first 512 bytes of any disk attached to a PC are assumed to be a valid MBR. Such a valid MBR includes boot code, a table describing four disk regions and a checksum. This table of disk regions must be present; you cannot expect reliable operation without it. > Who's demonstrating ignorance here? "It works for me" isn't even close to a valid argument. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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