Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 05:27:21 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, <cvs-all@freebsd.org>, <cvs-committers@freebsd.org>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <20021026052106.L5096-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20021025172549.GA51329@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > > Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> writes: > > > > The MBR partitioning is a feature of the MBR boot code, not of the BIOS. > > > > > > Wrong. Plenty of recent-issue BIOSen (particularly on laptops) go > > > down in flames if the MBR does not contain a valid partition table. > > > > Wrong yourself. Mark unfortunately understands how MBRs are supposed to > > work. It is a layering violating for the BIOS to look in the private > > parts of the bootstrap code for another subsystem. > > Just because it is wrong does not mean it does not happen. Haven't > we already been down this bikeshed with DD? Not quite. DD functionality hasn't been axed, so people who like it can still use it. They can make things work by not using ****ware on which it doesn't work. After axing, this is more painful because it involves not using FreeBSD or maintaining huge local patches. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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