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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:28:01 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c 
Message-ID:  <199908231728.LAA40006@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:06:20 PDT." <199908231106.EAA49762@freefall.freebsd.org> 
References:  <199908231106.EAA49762@freefall.freebsd.org>  

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In message <199908231106.EAA49762@freefall.freebsd.org> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
:   This wipes the MBR and creates slice 1 as a FreeBSD slice covering the
:   disk starting from the second track to the cylinder aligned end of the disk.
:   
:   This is the most compatibly layout we have as far as I know.

does it set the active bit?  When you say wipes the mbr, does it just
wipe the partition table in the mbr, or the entire mbr (eg boot code)?

Warner


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