From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 25 5:34:22 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB9137B401; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:34:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B83AA43E4A; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:34:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 09CD3534E; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:13 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Mark Valentine Cc: jhb@freebsd.org (John Baldwin), Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro , Bakul Shah , Bruce Evans Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis References: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:34:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200210241905.g9OJ5ahD045378@dotar.thuvia.org> (Mark Valentine's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:05:36 +0100 (BST)") Message-ID: Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Valentine 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. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message