Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:07:09 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>, Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Ehrmann <ehrmann@gmail.com>, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 8.0rc1 not recognizing partitions on EPIA SN Message-ID: <4ADC9CBD.1050607@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <86vdibzzsq.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <4ACE6D84.3000209@gmail.com> <4ACE833A.3030506@uffner.com> <4ACE9DFD.3010207@gmail.com> <200910131644.04358.john@baldwin.cx> <ea2d4a5b0910170126r78b2afcfib1547722bb3758b8@mail.gmail.com> <86ljja3ud5.fsf@ds4.des.no> <f8b073790910171705p1c5c996atee2c6aa109ec9d15@mail.gmail.com> <20091018162750.E82400@ury.york.ac.uk> <f8b073790910180853n2cc8cc72ua1006e015e2b3525@mail.gmail.com> <4ADBE444.1010706@elischer.org> <86vdibzzsq.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes: >> Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> writes: >>> Does that mean that it's possible to write a DD-style disklabel that >>> GEOM_PART would be happy with? >> it may be as little as overwriting bytes 510 and 511 of block0. >> (the last 2 bytes of the block are a magic number) >> >> this would stop the fdisk taster from recognising it as an fdisk >> block and teh disklabel taster would recognise the disklabel. > > If by "block0" you mean the very first sector of the disk, it will also > stop the BIOS from booting from that disk... > > DES Sorry, I thought it wasnt the boot disk (my misreading)
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