Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:43:06 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot disk.... Message-ID: <199511010113.LAA05097@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199510310816.JAA11022@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 31, 95 09:16:26 am
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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! [[
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