Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:25:49 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <20021025172549.GA51329@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20021026032104.P4681-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <xzp8z0mk88q.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20021026032104.P4681-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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> > Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> 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. > > Wrong yourself. Mark unfortunately understands how MBRs are supposed to > work. It is a layering violating for the BIOS to look in the private > parts of the bootstrap code for another subsystem. > Just because it is wrong does not mean it does not happen. Haven't we already been down this bikeshed with DD? -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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