From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 21 3:16:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-18-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F32158F7 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 03:16:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA06792; Fri, 21 May 1999 12:09:40 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199905211009.MAA06792@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Why we need two distinct MBRs in the sources? In-Reply-To: <44120.927280174@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 21, 1999 02:49:34 am" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), ru@ucb.crimea.ua (Ruslan Ermilov) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:09:22 +0200 (SAST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1> Could it be possible to unite these ones in /src/sys/boot/i386/mbr/ ? > > It could be possible, yes. :) > > - Jordan Seems a good idea: I'll do that, unless of course Ruslan wants to do it himself. At least one of the present MBRs is a bit too strictly correct, and supports booting only from hard drive 0, which is all IBM/Microsoft officially support. It'd probably make life a bit easier to allow booting from any hard drive. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message