From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 21 22:53:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3DC316A4D1 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:53:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (c00l3r.networx.ch [62.48.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A58143D54 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:53:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 73219 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2005 22:55:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) ([62.48.0.54]) (envelope-sender ) by c00l3r.networx.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Apr 2005 22:55:20 -0000 Message-ID: <42682EEE.A69A4C99@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:53:34 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh References: <20050421175245.GA2098@freebie.xs4all.nl> <863btkq7jp.fsf@xps.des.no><20050421.155352.41657875.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org cc: des@des.no cc: wb@freebie.xs4all.nl Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 boot0.S X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:53:36 -0000 Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:00:26PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote.. > > > Wilko Bulte writes: > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:42:28PM +0000, David E. O'Brien wrote.. > > > > > Log: > > > > > MFC: rev 1.14: remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 (NTFS). > > > > As a matter of curiosity, how does this impact people with minimal FreeBSD > > > > systems running out of (granted...) very small flashroms for example? > > > > > > Last I checked, you can't boot FreeBSD off a FAT partition. > > > > Eh um.. > > But DOS will boot from a FAT partition. Scott is right that this > changes changes the DOS to ??? in that case... As usual we seem to spend to much time on non-issues... So here I am ;-) On very small flashes with FAT12 on them you probably don't have multi boot capabilites very simply for space reasons. On larger flashes/disks you will have multi boot here or there but you won't have FAT12 on that partition because it too big for it. 99.9999% chance you have FAT16 or FAT32 on those. Final words: This changs affects not one living soul. [Maybe it does after all. There is a very high probablility that BDE has got an old i386SX16 with an MFM/RLL controller and a 20MB disk somewhere running buildworld -j16 in enless loops while measuring interrupt latency with WITNESS enabled and testing different assembler versions of bcopy on it and dual booting to DOS from time to time to run some bad sector marker program] ;-) -- Andre