Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:20:03 GMT From: Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com> To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/157819: [geom] gpart(8): drop serial from MBR Message-ID: <201106151620.p5FGK30l019900@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/157819; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern/157819: [geom] gpart(8): drop serial from MBR Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:10:41 +0400 On 15 June 2011 19:43, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote: > > [....] > > The fundamental question we need to answer is this: > Is the serial number a well-defined field in the MBR that is > independent and unrelated to the bootcode, or not? Yes, this field is defined in several documentation sources. It has 6 bytes and used Windows OS as disk identifier in registry to specify mount point. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978525.aspx > [....]
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