Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:27:42 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, 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: <23018.1035574062@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2002 05:27:21 %2B1000." <20021026052106.L5096-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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In message <20021026052106.L5096-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > >> > > 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? > >Not quite. DD functionality hasn't been axed, so people who like it can >still use it. They can make things work by not using ****ware on which it >doesn't work. After axing, this is more painful because it involves not >using FreeBSD or maintaining huge local patches. DD is not axed, it should still work in GEOM, provided the disk holds the correct bits. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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