Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 05:40:54 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br Subject: Re: boot disk.... Message-ID: <199510271940.FAA25718@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Stage 2 boostrap ... >... should perform MBR fixup to >guarantee that the absolute offset field in the MBR matches the c/h/s >values for the slice under the BIOS geometry. Only for its own benefit. Drivers don't want to know about yet another translation. >It should also be buildable >as a DOS program, to allow it to work with Ontrack's Disk Mangler. The Nothing should require DOS utilitites to build. Bruce
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